New data center eyed in PH
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — A data center platform company is eyeing a second data center facility in the country.
Digital Edge chief product officer Jonathan Chou said they want to provide a service that will be at par with data centers in Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United States.
“We have firm conviction on the size and the potential of the market in the Philippines. So, we will continue to invest as long as the growth is there,” he said.
The US$100 million joint venture between regional player Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. and local technology and real estate company Threadborne Group aims to provide world-class data center services like Amazon through its 10-megawatt (MW) center at the Laguna Technopark in Binan.
The center offers 2,200 cabinets for a colocation site for technology-related firms.
Chou said the firm aims to be a carbon-neutral data center by 2030, to source at least 50 percent of power from renewable energy by 2025, and to achieve a peak power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.3 or less, among others.
