PLDT Inc. will be building the first and largest data center in the country for the use of giant global companies.
The company said the facility, to be built in partnership with its unit ePLDT, will be “telco neutral” and will incorporate sustainability in its design and operations.
Nico Alcoseba, PLDT head of ICT Business for Enterprise, said the facility will satisfy the government’s initiatives to make the Philippines “a more attractive destination for hyperscalers,” a collective term referring to big global companies.
“The PLDT Group is further enhancing its network of data centers to serve and deliver the much bigger requirements of hyperscalers, particularly to service their availability zones which are the core nodes of their global network to deliver the cloud solutions,” Alcoseba said.
“We are very optimistic and bullish about the hyperscaler demand in the enterprise sector.
To support the growing needs of global technology giants and cloud service providers expanding in the region, we at the PLDT Group are proud to announce that we will be building the first hyperscaler data center facility in the Philippines,” Alcoseba added.
The facility will be Tier-3 certified and Tier-4 ready once it starts operations.
The PLDT Group operates the largest network of data centers in the country. These data centers are also supported by the 524,000-kilometer fiber optic network laid out by PLDT across the archipelago, connecting the Philippines to the world.
These facilities are linked to the PLDT Group’s extensive participation in 14 international submarine cable systems and one terrestrial system carrying data traffic going in and out of the Philippines, with three more new submarine cables in construction — the Jupiter Cable system, Apricot Cable and Asia Direct Cable.
