Singapore’s SpaceDC eyes $700-M investment for PHL data center with 12,000 racks

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Singapore’s SpaceDC eyes $700-M investment for PHL data center with 12,000 racks

CEO, Darren Hawkins, in an interview with Business World Online.
 
SINGAPORE-BASED SpaceDC said it is looking to invest more than $700 million in its planned 72-megawatt (MW) hyperscale data center serving Greater Manila, which is expected to open this year. “We are looking to invest over $700 million into the campus,” SpaceDC Chief Executive Officer Darren Hawkins told BusinessWorld in an e-mailed reply to questions on Friday last week.

SpaceDC, a data center provider, recently announced that it is working with global real estate services firm JLL to build a data center called MNL1, which will be situated in Cainta, Rizal.

“The Philippines ranks second in terms of data center growth in Southeast Asia. With only 47 MW of available capacity in the country, it is a dramatically underserved market. We are excited to be a first mover in a new market where we see our customers are investing heavily in,” Mr. Hawkins said.

The data center, which will run on renewable energy, is slated to open this year, he noted.

“The average rack density and configuration of our facility means we can accommodate both colocation and hyperscale customers. Our design provides flexibility and efficiency that equips our customers with the capacity to grow.”

Data analytics and consulting company GlobalData has said that global hyperscalers, or the massive international companies that dominate the cloud service sector, may be needed to open facilities in the country because “local hosting” is a “key requirement” to address the “strong demand” for cloud services.

More Philippine enterprises plan to migrate workloads to the cloud, propelling the country’s cloud market to $2.8 billion by 2025 from $1.8 billion in 2020, making it an ideal destination for global hyperscalers, GlobalData also said.

On why SpaceDC chose to build its facility in Cainta, Mr. Hawkins said: “We assessed all the local risk conditions throughout Greater Manila such as flooding, volcanoes and earthquakes. We determined Cainta was well placed to avoid any of these types of natural disasters.”

“Our site is designed to be resilient and strategically placed on elevated ground that is well serviced by a high voltage terminal station that supplies dual 110KV (kilovolt) feeds and in close proximity to the main fiber exchanges,” he also noted.

On the company’s future plans, he said: “We have developed an expansion plan for the Philippines that we look forward to announcing.”

“SpaceDC is also looking to expand throughout Broader Asia, we expect to announce further expansion as far as India, Japan and Australia.” — Arjay L. Balinbin Read the article here.

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MoneyFM interview: The future of data centres in Singapore and the region

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MoneyFM : The future of data centres in Singapore and the region

Darren Hawkin’s radio interview with MoneyFM, The Breakfast Huddle.

Date: 7 February 2022, Monday
Time: 8.15AM
Media: MoneyFM
Presenters: The Breakfast Huddle with Elliot Danker, Bharati Jagdish and Ryan Huang
Interviewee: Darren Hawkins, CEO of SpaceDC

According to real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield’s 2022 Global Data Centre Market Comparison report, Singapore scored highly on key criteria such as market size, fibre connectivity and availability of cloud services. But while we are ranked second, Singapore has paused new data centre development since 2019. Darren Hawkins, CEO, SpaceDC shares why companies are building data centres in other markets despite Singapore’s high-speed internet connectivity, and the pros and cons behind Singapore’s decision to lift its moratorium on new data centre projects.

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SpaceDC to build the largest hyperscale data center in the Philippines

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SpaceDC to build the largest hyperscale data center in the Philippines.

SpaceDC to build the largest hyperscale data center in the Philippines.
  • 72MW facility located in Cainta, Greater Manila
  • 100% green power supply, PUE design of 1.3


3 February 2022 – Manila, Singapore
— SpaceDC, a Singapore-based visionary data center provider, is working with JLL, a global real estate services firm, building a secure, resilient, network rich, data center called MNL1, which will be situated in Cainta, part of Greater Manila. The green data center will be fully powered with renewable energy – wind, geothermal – and is slated to open in 2022.

At 43,000m2, MNL1 will be the largest hyperscale data center campus in the Philippines, and will deliver 72MW of critical power. With an outstanding PUE of 1.3, MNL1 will also lead in terms of energy efficiency and design, to minimize carbon footprint.

SpaceDC CEO, Darren Hawkins said, “The Philippines ranks second in terms of data center growth in Southeast Asia. With only 47MW of available capacity in the country it is a dramatically underserved market. We are excited to be a first mover in a new market where we see our customers are investing heavily in.”

“SpaceDC is in the right place at the right time to take advantage of the strong customer interest we are seeing in the Philippines. MNL1’s design is setting new standards in terms of technology, quality and operational excellence in the Philippines.” commented Ralph Davidson, Executive Director, Data Center Services for JLL, the appointed project construction manager.

Notes to editors:

  • At 43,000m2 across 3x four-story data hall buildings, MNL1 is the largest hyperscale data center campus in the Philippines. The state of the art facilities feature SpaceDC’s unique design, which comfortably accommodates racks of up to 15kW across 48 x 1,500kW data halls before additional cooling support is required.
  • MNL1 has its own leading internet exchange and diverse connectivity: local/international fiber presence, vendor neutral access, multiple MMRs and SDN. Benefits include switch/ramps to cloud providers such as AWS, Alibaba, and Azure; direct cloud access and connectivity to over 400 data centers.
  • SpaceDC’s data centers feature eight layers of advanced physical security including remote monitoring, 24/7 CCTV, multiple biometrics certifications and digital touchpoints, alongside fire protection and grounding.
  • For further details and our facility data sheet, click here.

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