VITRO Inc., the data center arm of the PLDT Group, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of ePLDT, recorded a 36 percent year on year surge in revenues in its colocation business, fueled by rising demand from financial institutions, the public sector, and global hyperscalers.
In a statement on September 10, PLDT said the surge in colocation also drives growth in VITRO’s connectivity business, reinforcing its role as a critical enabler of digital transformation in the Philippines.
“We are building strong momentum in our data center business, with VITRO Santa Rosa (VSR) driving sustained demand from enterprises and hyperscalers,” ePLDT and VITRO Inc. president and CEO Victor Genuino said.
“We’re growing our colocation business not just on VSR but also across all VITRO data center sites,” he added. “To sustain this growth, we look forward to stronger data localization policies that will safeguard government data, accelerate cloud and AI adoption, and create demand for the local data center industry.”
Designed to meet the evolving needs of AI workloads and hyperscale deployments, VSR has a total power capacity of 50MW.
With Rated-3 certification and Rated-4 readiness, VSR provides network diversity and resilience, as it is fully connected to other VITRO flagship sites, the country’s domestic fiber optic network, and international subsea cable systems.
VSR also houses ePLDT’s GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), designed for enterprises that face infrastructure gaps due to high-compute workloads.
With it, enterprises gain the ability to run highly demanding AI workloads on NVIDIA-powered GPU infrastructure such as machine learning, large-scale data analytics, financial modeling, high-resolution rendering, and advanced simulations, without the need for massive infrastructure investment.
VITRO is in the planning stage for its 12th data center and has already identified key sites for expansion.
