Digital Realty Trust has announced its second data center facility in Singapore.
Digital Realty expects to invest upwards of S$200 million ($149.4 million) in new data center infrastructure, underscoring the company’s commitment to Singapore’s Smart Nation plan, which encourages the sustainable supply of data centers to ensure sufficient future capacity.
The data center will span approximately 177,000 square feet and is a redevelopment of an existing printing paper storage facility. Digital Realty has entered into a purchase agreement with the seller and has obtained Jurong Town Corporation’s (JTC) consent for lease assignment.
Legal completion is expected to occur in early July 2015, although power and fiber works are already underway.
Located in Singapore’s northeast, the new 13.2MW data center will connect via dark fiber to Digital Realty’s first data center, in the west of the city-state, which is home to global Tier 1 carriers, the Singapore Internet Exchange, and the Digital CloudConnect network. The current construction program provides for an estimated late 2015 delivery of the powered base building along with up to 3.2 MW of data center space.
“Our first data center in Singapore marked Digital Realty’s entrance into one of Asia Pacific’s rapid expansion markets and enabled our global clients to enter the city-state and serve other regional markets with a trusted partner,” said Daryl Dunbar, Managing Director Asia Pacific at Digital Realty.
“Our new data center expansion supports Singapore’s efforts to become a regional data center hub and delivers the openness and agility that our global clients continue to want from us, as well as the broader data center industry, to accelerate their growth.
Digital Realty says the new data center is compliant with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Threat and Vulnerability Risk Assessment Guidelines and has obtained the Target Green Mark Platinum certification (new building category). It also provides access to over 50 cloud service providers globally via Digital CloudConnect and to over 1,000 network providers.
Digital Realty’s first data center in Singapore became fully operational in 2011. At 370,500 square feet, it is the largest of the company’s data centers in the Asia Pacific region.