Data centres in S'pore to drive near threefold jump in jobs: Report

The data centre sector is making an "outsized" contribution to Singapore's economy and has created several thousand jobs directly linked to this sector — with above-average wages, said a report by the Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association (APDCA).

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The report cited a 2023 study commissioned by Amazon Web Services which found that data centres add more than $2 billion annually to Singapore's economy — nearly half the size of the total retail sector and larger than the entire hospitality sector.

The Amazon study also estimated that data centres enabled up to 1.6 million jobs across the country, representing approximately 70 per cent of Singapore's resident labour force.

Around 25,000 jobs were linked to the presence of physical data centres. Of these, around 7,000 are employed within data centres themselves, while a further 17,000 are linked through the data centre supply chain.