Details of facility unclear
UAE-owned tech company Kintsugi has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Filipino government to provide a data center.
The memorandum between Kintsugi Holdings managing director Sean Teo Teck San and Secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Henry Aguda was signed on August 22.
DICT’s press release states that there is a “proposed investment in the development, construction, and operation of data [a] center” in the Philippines that will “empower government operations, businesses, and communities nationwide.”
Details of this proposed data center – its size, projected capacity, location, and exact utility – were not shared.
Kintsugi will also work with DICT to “accelerate the digitization of the Philippine public sector and expand the adoption of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity solutions, cloud infrastructure, and other advanced digital tools critical to national development.”
Kintsugi, which is named after the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery with powdered gold, has interests in a variety of products and services, including aerospace, power, aging technologies, autonomy and AI, robotics, and material science.
The company has signed a variety of agreements regarding the provision of services relating to these various industries, including an MoU signed in June between its aviation subsidiary Autocraft and Indonesia’s GMF AeroAsia, which provides aerospace maintenance, and an MoU with the Abu Dhabi Civil Defence Authority in February of this year pledging to support the city’s emergency response infrastructure.
One of its subsidiaries, a robotaxi company Autogo, conducted trials for service in the UAE in March; another subsidiary, Eneron, which makes electric military vehicles, unveiled its patrol vehicle in May; and Camofox, also owned by Kintsugi, intends to produce camouflage technology for military applications.
It is unclear whether this is the company’s first foray into the data center business.
Sean Teo Teck San previously founded Transmex Systems International, a Singapore-based company that designs security and surveillance systems.
