Singtel is making its biggest data centre investment in Singapore with a new 36 megawatts data center in Jurong. The new data center which is estimated to cost S$400 million, is build to meet the growing demand for co-location and cloud services in Singapore. It is designed to meet the critical hosting needs of the financial services industry, government agencies, and cloud and Internet service providers. The new Tier 3-Plus data centre is to be completed in the third quarter of 2016.
The new facility brings Singtel’s network of data centres in Asia Pacific to 13 – nine in Singapore and two each in Hong Kong and Australia. With an approximate gross floor area of 570,000 square feet, the network-ready data centre is built to host an array of new technologies from cloud solutions, smart applications to different platforms for analytics.
According to Singtel, the data center will enable customers to deploy and scale virtualisation and blade servers more efficiently, according to future needs. The new facility also comprises an integrated climate control system and a critical cooling system using recycled NEWater, running on energy-efficient equipment.
Bill Chang, Chief Executive Officer, Group Enterprise
This enlarged footprint enables businesses to use Singtel’s regional hosting capabilities to grow and connect their operations within Singapore and the region, seamlessly. It enables Singtel to attract and host world-class cloud players in Singapore and position the country as a global hub for cloud computing and innovation.
