UAE-based Edgnex Data Centres by DAMAC announced on Tuesday it has started construction an AI data centre in Indonesia with a designed IT load capacity of 144MW and a price tag of US$2.3 billion.
The new facility – which is is being built on land acquired by Edgnex in March 2025 – is now in the construction phase, and will feature high-density AI racks to support Indonesia’s shift to a digital economy as demand rises for scalable, energy-efficient infrastructure, the company said.
“The scale of AI workloads demands a new class of infrastructure,” said DAMAC Group founder Hussain Sajwani in a statement.
Edgnex added that the AI data centre will target a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.32 to meet global sustainability benchmarks.
It’s the second Indonesian data centre project Edgnex has launched since announcing plans to enter the market in May 2024. Edgnex is currently building a smaller-scale data centre, also in Jakarta, with a load capacity of 19.2MW.
The first phase of that facility is scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2026. Meanwhile, Phase 1 of the AI data centre is expected to be ready for service by December 2026.
Both projects are part of Edgnex’s broader push across Southeast Asia, in which the company has invested over US$3 billion in digital infrastructure investments so far, said Sajwani.
In October 2024, Edgnex formed a joint venture with Thai ISP Proen Corp to invest over THB32 billion baht (US$962 million) in several data centre development projects in Thailand.
