Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. has partnered with local technology and real estate firm Threadborne Group to construct and operate a 10MW data center in Manila, with a capital commitment in excess of $100 million or about P5 billion collectively from both parties.
The JV said the new data center will put the Philippines into the league of having one of the most advanced data centers in Asia.
The new data center will be based on Digital Edge’s next-generation architecture and operated under the Digital Edge brand name.
Now under construction, the Manila data center is slated to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2022. It will be the largest operational carrier neutral data center in the Philippines.
The facility also aims to be the most advanced facility in the market, in terms of energy and water efficiency, with an expected annualized power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.193 at optimal operating temperature and water usage effectiveness (WUE) of 1.355.
The facility will allow Digital Edge to offer flexible, high-quality colocation and interconnection services to both local and international customers in the Greater Manila region.
The low PUE and WUE make the facility uniquely suitable in the market for cloud and other high power density colocation applications.
“The Philippines is an underserved market with huge demand for data center capacity and, together with the Threadborne Group, we intend to be at the forefront of developing the critical data center infrastructure for this market,” said Samuel Lee, chief executive officer of Digital Edge.
“Given Manila’s hot and humid climate, it is extremely difficult to achieve an annualized PUE of 1.193 at the optimal operating temperature, but the team has been able to achieve an impressive result,” said Jay Park, chief development officer of Digital Edge. “The WUE of 1.355 is also significant in that it uses less than a quarter of the water needed for cooling when compared to traditional style cooling tower type setups.
