For seasoned executive Victor Genuino, the Philippines is poised to become a major powerhouse for data centers—a go-to destination for tech companies driving the next wave of digital progress. It’s a bold vision, and one he is already executing as head of VITRO Inc. “My dream is for the...
Telecommunications giant PLDT Inc. has set its sights on constructing its 12th and largest data center in Cavite, pending the high occupancy rate of its facility in Sta. Rosa, Laguna, and a risk assessment study on the potential site. VITRO Inc., the data center arm of PLDT, plans to build a data...
HOUSTON – American firm Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) is confident of having its pioneering rollout of micro modular reactors (MMRs) for nuclear power installations in the Philippines through a partnership with Manila Electric Company (Meralco) by the turn of the decade. In an interview,...
French multinational giant Schneider Electric is intensifying its pitch on the use of green energy as well as other sustainable solutions to support the operations of flourishing data centers in the Philippines. Underpinned by its offer of energy management solutions and digital automation...
SINGAPORE – Multinational energy giant Shell is currently piloting its innovative ‘immersion cooling fluid’ that it would be offering to data centers as coolant for their servers and other computing tools. In a roundtable discussion with Asian journalists here, Shell Executive Vice President...
As data center project-proponents have been firming up their investment plans in the Philippines, the Department of Energy (DOE) indicated that it will match up their electricity needs with the investors putting up renewable energy (RE) facilities in the country. “A number of investors presented...
Data centers will experience increased regulation and third-party oversight in 2023 as the world continues to grapple with the industry’s rising energy and water consumption against the backdrop of ongoing climate change. The intensified focus on the overall environmental and...
Hyperscalers and investors are seeing heightened interest in Manila as location for their projects, a report by real estate management and consultancy firm showed. The Q3 2022 Data Center Report published recently by Knight Frank in partnership with DC Byte, the leading data center research and...
South Korea has helped the Philippines build a data center and establish a system in a bid to digitalize the invoicing system of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). EIS Data Center (Photo courtesy of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Philippines) As part of the system's nearing launch,...
Globe Telecom Inc. on Monday, April 4, closed a joint venture partnership deal with ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) and Ayala Corporation (AC) for a powerhouse data center which translates to a transaction pre-tax gain of P10.5 billion for the telco. So far, the three parties have signed...
Data centers are the heart of our digital world. In recent years, there has been a spike in the number of data centers established across Asia, with the Philippines among the fastest-developing data center markets. While this is a big step towards a more secure and connected future, it also comes...
69346 Globe Telecom Inc. has formed a joint venture partnership with ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), one of the world’s fastest growing data center providers, and Ayala Corporation (AC) for an over P18-billion ($350M) data center. Under the agreement, both STT GDC and AC shall...
