PLDT, one of the Philippines' major telecommunications providers, has said it is to develop a 100MW data centre in Santa Rosa, in the Laguna province of the Philippines, which is situated southeast of Metro Manila. The purpose-built facility will be constructed through PLDT’s ICT arm ePLDT.
PLDT’s 11th data centre – to be named Vitro Sta. Rosa – will reportedly be the country’s largest data centre campus by far. It will be sited on a five-hectare plot. PLDT has said that the facility will be designed to be Tier III certified and Tier IV ready.
The company has suggested that the site will make an ‘ideal location’ for availability zones and points-of-presence for hyperscalers.
As with pretty much all new data centres these days, a sustainability element has also come into play. The new facility will also be designed based on LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards, and will use rainwater collection and renewable energy as well as reusing wastewater.
The timing of the development and the date on which the new facility will go live are as yet unclear.
We reported these plans in October last year, when PLDT said that the data centre – described at the time as the first hyperscaler data centre facility in the country – would have more capacity in one facility than all of the company’s ten VITRO data centres combined.
A month earlier, however, we reported that PLDT was considering selling its data centres, with a potential value in the region of half a billion dollars. No further announcements have been made about this plan.
