MANILA, Philippines — Globe Telecom Inc.’s data center arm, STT GDC Philippines, has bagged a global cloud service provider as the first anchor tenant at its 124-megawatt (MW) data center in Fairview, Quezon City, which is slated for commercial launch this year.
Carlo Malana, STT GDC Philippines CEO, said in a virtual press briefing on Tuesday that a hyperscaler would soon occupy STT Fairview, adding that more potential clients are interested in housing their servers in the Quezon City data center.
However, he did not name the said client yet due to confidentiality.
Hyperscalers are entities providing cloud, networking and internet services such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, Alibaba AliCloud, IBM and Oracle.
“We do have a solid pipeline that supports our utilization goals for the new site as we get the rest of the capacity online by the end of the year,” Malana added.
The groundbreaking ceremony for STT Fairview was held in 2023. The 83,000-square-meter (sqm) facility is estimated to cost $1 billion.
About 8 MW of the data center capacity would be fired up this year.
Expanding capacity
STT GDC Philippines is also working on a 6-MW data center in Cavite, which is targeted to be opened this year. The facility has a gross floor area of over 4,500 sqm.
Currently, Globe has a total of 22 MW in data center capacity, which it targets to increase to 33 MW this year. By 2026, the Ayala-led company aims to have 52 MW.
The data center arm has about 3,200 racks, about 75 percent of which are already utilized.
Earlier this year, STT GDC Philippines launched AI (artificial intelligence) Synergy Lab, a data center that can facilitate AI workloads.
“This positions Globe as a leader in AI infrastructure where it showcases the ability to process some AI workloads in the country so we don’t have to shift the data out. We can process the data in-country,” Malana said.
