ST Engineering to invest $120m in green data centre

Facility in Boon Lay will meet high security and energy efficiency standards

-  Zhaki Abdullah

Technology and engineering group ST Engineering is investing $120 million over the next three years in a new data centre with high security and energy efficiency standards.

The data centre, which is expected to be operational in 2026, will increase ST Engineering’s total capacity to more than 30MW in Singapore.

Located within ST Engineering Land Systems’ premises in Jalan Boon Lay, the seven-storey, 6,000 sq ft facility will be the group’s fourth data centre here.

The new data centre will be able to accommodate high power density artificial intelligence and graphics processing unit-based workloads of more than 20 kilowatts per rack, in partnership with established industry leaders such as Google.

As part of its sustainability features, the data centre will have 2,400 sq m of solar panels – equivalent to the area of nine tennis courts – on the eastern facade of the building.

The panels, which are expected to be exposed to at least six hours of sunlight a day, will be able to power much of the building’s electrical requirements, said Mr Low Jin Phang, president of ST Engineering digital systems business. No details about the building’s electrical requirements were provided.