Data centre company PT DCI Indonesia (DCI) has announced that it will build a third data centre facility in Cibitung – but it’s not stopping there.
JK3 is a seven-storey facility with four data hall floors; the remaining floors are for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) equipment. Constructed in collaboration with Equinix, a major name in the design, building and operating of data centres, JK3 has a total IT load of 12MW. It will begin operations in early 2020. It is located in Cibitung, West Java.
Also in Cibitung, DCI’s other data centre buildings are JK1, with a capacity of 3MW, and JK2, with a capacity of 7MW. This, however, is only the start. DCI has made clear its aim to expand data centre operations, growing the present site into a campus containing more than six data centres. This will depend on demand from customers of course, although, given the size of the Indonesian population and its digital economy, this is, if not a foregone conclusion, at least highly likely.
The land area at DCI’s disposal – some 85,000 sq m – will, according to the DCI vision, eventually house data centres totalling more than 150MW and the largest data centre campus in Southeast Asia.
The number of hyperscale data centres in Southeast Asia is growing fast – Singapore, for example, plans a variety of hyperscale facilities of between 30MW and 60MW. However, worries about the carbon footprint of data centres have, for now, slowed development.
