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)...
DAVAO CITY – Davao City councilors have expressed strong reservations on the proposed Pax Silica industrial hub, warning that neither Davao City nor the Philippines currently has the capacity to support the high-tech development. Councilor Louie John Bonguyan, chairperson of the Committee on...
Malacañang asserted that the public just needs accurate information about Pax Silica amid steady opposition and criticisms. Citing social media posts that "show only the negative aspects" of the proposed Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) industrial hub in Tarlac, Palace Press Officer and...
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...
Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Thursday, August 6 stressed the need to ensure that the welfare and sentiments of farmers and other affected communities will not be set aside in the proposed Pax Silica project. Pangilinan pointed this out in reacting to Jessica Soho’s feature on Pax...
“If the 20th century ran on oil and steel, the 21st century runs on computers and the minerals that feed it,” said Jacob Helberg, the American undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs. The statement reflects the rationale behind the United States’ Pax Silica Initiative, an international...
Senator Imee Marcos on Monday, August 3 has formally filed a resolution urging the Senate to look into the proposed Pax Silica project’s impact on the water and electricity resource demands and long-term environmental impacts on the country’s natural resources. Marcos made the call in light...
The proposed Pax Silica artificial intelligence (AI) industrial hub in Tarlac will not affect farmers, a Palace official said. Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro pointed out that no farmers will be affected by the development of the controversial AI hub as there...
Is the Pax Silica project just a "Trojan horse" for something potentially dangerous to Filipinos? ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio made this insinuation amid reports that the Marcos administration was considering the use of small modular reactors (SMR) to meet the staggering five-gigawatt...
