Data Centre

Facebook to invest S$1.4 billion and build first Asian data centre in Singapore

Social media giant Facebook on Thursday (Sep 6) announced it will pour in more than S$1.4 billion to construct its first data centre in Asia in Singapore. The new facility, located at Tanjong Kling (formerly known as Data Centre Park) in the west of Singapore, will span 170,000 sq m and will “support hundreds of jobs”, the company said in its press release, adding it will form part of its growing...

Google to build third data centre in Singapore

Google is building a third data centre in Singapore to meet rapid user growth in the region, bringing its total long-term investment in such facilities here to US$850 million (S$1.16 billion). The US$350 million facility will be in Jurong West near its first two centres. Google said the complex, which is expected to come online in 2020, will be built on a plot of land the size of the first and second...

Mapletree Industrial Trust snags S$60m project for build-to-suit data centre

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) has secured a new build-to-suit (BTS) data centre in the west region of Singapore for an established data centre operator for some S$60 million. The six-storey purpose-built data centre with gross floor area of about 242,000 square feet will be fully leased to the client for an initial lease term of more than 10 years with staggered rental escalations and renewal...

Digital Realty Trust opens second data centre in Singapore

In response to growing demand for database storage, global data centre provider Digital Realty Trust launched its second data centre in Singapore, Digital Loyang Way, on Thursday (Jun 2). The 177,000 square feet facility is designed to accommodate a wide range of customer deployments from cloud service providers to financial services customers in an efficient and eco-friendly manner. Located in...

1-Net North Data Center officially opens

A new data centre offering high-speed networks between Singapore and the region opened on Monday (May 30), in response to growing demand from companies looking for secure data storage solutions. The 200,000 square foot 1-Net North Data Center, which has been running since April, has bomb blast-proof walls and eight tiers of security barriers for added protection. Costing S$200 million to build, it is...

Singapore to trial world’s first tropical data centre

The Republic will conduct trials on the world's first tropical data centre (TDC) in the third quarter of this year, announced Communications and Information Minister Dr Yaacob Ibrahim on Monday (May 30). The trials are aimed to prove if data centres can function optimally at temperatures of up to 38 degrees Celsius and ambient humidity of up to or exceeding 90 per cent. Currently, data centres are...

LinkedIn opens S$80m data centre in Jurong

Social networking site LinkedIn opened its S$80 million Singapore data centre on Wednesday (Apr 6) - the company's first data centre outside of the United States. The 23,500-square-feet facility is housed in Digital Realty Trust's data centre in Jurong, and will process all of LinkedIn’s online traffic in the Asia-Pacific region and handle about a third of global traffic, it said in a news release....

Alibaba Group plans to invest in Singapore data centre

Chinese Web giant Alibaba Group on Thursday (Jul 30) announced it will set up data centres in Singapore, as well as Japan, Europe and the Middle East, as part of its US$1 billion investment to drive the growth of its cloud computing arm Aliyun. In a press release, Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang said Aliyun will serve as an "essential engine" for the company in the new economy which sees the physical...

Keppel Data Centres to build 4th facility in Singapore

Keppel Data Centres on Thursday (Jul 23) announced it will be developing its fourth data centre in the Republic, which will be located close to the company's other data centres in Tampines. The company signed a conditional agreement to acquire a light industrial building, via its wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel Datahub 3, for a purchase consideration of S$20 million, according to the press release by...

Telin Singapore to build new data centre in Jurong

Telin Singapore is building a new five-storey data centre and telecommunication hub in Jurong. This will be the third data centre owned by the company, which is a fully-owned subsidiary of Telkom Indonesia. The 20,000-square-metre facility will help address demand for data centre services in the Republic, and support Singapore's Smart Nation vision. It will also have the capacity to meet demand for...

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