VITRO Inc., the data center arm of the PLDT Group, said Wednesday its first-half colocation revenues grew 36 percent from a year earlier, driven by rising demand from financial institutions, the public sector and global hyperscalers.
Colocation, where companies house their servers and other computing hardware in a data center, remains the cornerstone of VITRO’s operations, directly impacting utilization rates and shaping the company’s expansion roadmap. The growth in colocation also boosts VITRO’s connectivity business.
“We are building strong momentum in our data center business, with VITRO Santa Rosa (VSR) driving sustained demand from enterprises and hyperscalers,” said Victor Genuino, president and chief executive of ePLDT and VITRO Inc.
“We’re growing our colocation business not just on VSR but also across all VITRO data center sites,” he said.
Genuino said the company is looking to stronger data localization policies to “safeguard government data, accelerate cloud and AI adoption, and create even greater demand for the local data center industry.”
VSR has a total power capacity of 50 megawatts and is designed to meet the evolving needs of AI and hyperscale deployments. The facility holds Rated-3 certification and is Rated-4 ready, with connections to other VITRO sites, the country’s domestic fiber network and international subsea cable systems.
VSR also houses ePLDT’s GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), which allows enterprises to run demanding AI workloads on NVIDIA-powered GPU infrastructure without the need for large infrastructure investment. This service is designed for tasks such as machine learning, large-scale data analytics, financial modeling, and advanced simulations.
VITRO said it is in the planning stage for its 12th data center and has already identified key sites for expansion.
