ST Engineering, a Singaporean multinational technology and engineering group, has broken ground on a new data center in the city-state.
The company this week held a groundbreaking ceremony for its fourth data center, located in Jalan Boon Lay, Singapore.
The seven-story facility is set to launch in 2026. Local reports suggest the data center will offer 7.5MW.
Update: the company told DCD that the facility is not part of the 300MW data center capacity allocation recently announced by the Singaporean government.
Able to offer densities of up to 20kW per rack to host GPU hardware, the facility will support various cooling systems, including the group’s own proprietary Airbitat DC Cooling System as well as liquid cooling and immersion cooling systems. It will target a PUE of 1.25.
In addition, 2,400 sqm (25,835 sq ft) of solar panels will be installed to reduce reliance on the grid.
“This new data center sets new standards in security and sustainability, and we have received strong interest from customers who place priorities in these areas,” said Low Jin Phang, president of digital systems business at ST Engineering. “The new data center further strengthens ST Engineering’s digital business offerings in cloud, AI analytics, and cybersecurity.”
The facility will take the group’s total capacity to more than 30MW. ST Engineering is investing around $120 million in the project.
ST Engineering' can trace its roots back to the government-owned Chartered Industries of Singapore, which was founded in 1967. ST Engineering was created in December 1997 after the merger of ST Aerospace, ST Electronics, ST Automotive, and ST Marine. The company is majority-owned by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek, which also owns stakes in Singtel, STT GDC, CapitaLand, Mapletree, and Keppel.
Singapore has had a moratorium on new data center developments since 2019, although already authorized facilities were allowed to be built after this point. Singtel broke ground on a new data center in Singapore last year and Keppel recently topped out a new data center in the city-state.
However, this ban was relaxed slightly in July 2022 when the Singapore Economic Development Board and the IMDA announced a pilot scheme allowing companies to bid for permission to develop new facilities.
Equinix, GDS, Microsoft, and a consortium of AirTrunk and TikTok-owner ByteDance were granted permission for a combined 80MW of new capacity.
In addition, the Singaporean government recently announced plans to unlock 300MW of additional data center capacity by driving greater energy efficiency at existing data centers.
