PLDT Inc. on Friday broke ground for the construction of the largaest hyperscale data center facility in the country.
“The PLDT Group is one with the nation in building a digitally-advanced Philippines and making our country the next hyperscaler destination in Asia Pacific. With Vitro Sta. Rosa, we aim to set the benchmark in infrastructure resilience, operational excellence, global competitiveness and world-class sustainability,” PLDT president and chief executive Alfredo Panlilio said.
“A facility of this caliber only ensures the best possible customer experience not only for our hyperscale clients, but also for the Filipino end-users consuming their services. We at PLDT Group are committed to providing world-class services to our global enterprise clients and enabling the digital transformation of the country and the Filipino people,” he said.Vitro Sta.Rosa underscores the PLDT Group’s commitment to constantly invest and elevate the digital infrastructure readiness of the country through the sustained expansion of its international and domestic fiber capacities, 5G roll-outs and world-class data center facilities with the goal of powering up the hyperscale industry of Philippines.
PLDT is one of the early enablers of the hyperscale industry, serving the unique requirements of global tech companies through existing Vitro facilities.
It collaborated with key government agencies in 2021 to lay down the groundwork and include hyperscalers as one of the new priority sectors of the Philippines, culminating with the official launch of the hyperscale industry under the ‘Make It Happen’ campaign of the Department of Trade and Industry in September.
Vitro Sta. Rosa will rise as the country’s largest data center campus on a five-hectare PLDT property in the booming industrial city of Sta. Rosa. It is the first in a series of data center builds totaling to a power capacity of 100 megawatts.
The data center is designed to be energy efficient utilizing the latest innovations in cooling and power redundancy, Tier-3 certified and Tier-4 ready, and with the highest level of network diversity and resilience with at least three fiber routes from PLDT and augmented by routes from other carriers.
Vitro Sta. Rosa will host the country’s richest internet ecosystem and premiere internet exchanges, making it the most ideal location for availability zones and points-of-presence of hyperscalers and for critical systems of enterprises.
To ensure hyperscalers maximum operational uptime, PLDT teamed up with Manila Electric Co. to build a dedicated substation on-site that will directly supply the data center’s power requirements, ensuring higher levels of system reliability and a more efficient delivery of electricity.