The Department of Energy (DOE) is selling a grand vision for Pax Silica’s embedded power supply, but so far, the plan looks more like a back-of-the-envelope sketch than a serious policy roadmap: heavy on promises, painfully lacking in details, and generating far more questions than definitive...
To extend its concession rights in New Clark City, West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. confirmed that it is set to provide water and wastewater operations in the area for more than two decades. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Thursday, Aug. 27, Maynilad said...
Apart from the proposed artificial intelligence (AI) industrial hub in New Clark City, the Philippines plans to establish other projects under the United States-led Pax Silica initiative, including an economic zone focused solely on data centers. Trade Undersecretary Ceferino Rodolfo told lawmakers...
State-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) is teaming up with StB GigaFactory Inc. to explore renewable energy (RE) solutions to support ongoing operations and future developments at New Clark City in Tarlac. In a statement, BCDA said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)...
Fears that artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to massive job losses in the Philippines’ information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) industry may be overstated as the sector continues to grow despite the rapid adoption of the technology, the country’s chief economist...
The Philippines risks falling behind the artificial intelligence (AI) boom as it benefits less from the surge in AI-related electronics exports while its massive business process outsourcing (BPO) industry faces growing exposure to automation, according to think tank Capital Economics. In a report...
The long-delayed ₱2.5-billion information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure project in New Clark City may have found new life, as Converge ICT Solutions Inc. looks to participate in the proposed Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) hub. Converge Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...
The country’s electronics sector is pushing for reforms to position the Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) industrial hub in New Clark City as a launchpad to strengthen its role in the global supply chain for emerging technologies. In a position paper, the Semiconductor and Electronics...
NEW CLARK CITY — The Philippines stands to generate an additional $200 billion in export revenue from the proposed Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) hub in New Clark City within 30 years from the start of development, or as early as 2058. Based on estimates from state-run Bases Conversion...
NEW CLARK CITY — State-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) has dispelled assumptions that hyperscale data centers, whose energy requirements are enough to power as many as 100,000 households, would be constructed under the proposed Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI)...
The potential displacement of farmers from the site of the proposed Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) hub in New Clark City is not expected to happen anytime soon, according to the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA). Amid claims that the state-run firm is buying land to evict...
The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), the state-run firm overseeing the development of the Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) industrial hub, said farmers affected by the project may find work opportunities in New Clark City. In a statement on Monday, Aug. 3, the BCDA said it...
