ST Telemedia Launches First Indonesia Data Centre at 72MW West Java Campus

The data centre unit of Singaporean tech firm ST Telemedia has launched its first facility in Indonesia as part of a campus that will ultimately support up to 72 megawatts of critical IT capacity.

STT Jakarta 1 in West Java’s Bekasi will support up to 19.5MW at the campus with a gross floor area of 18,000 square metres (193,750 square feet), ST Telemedia Global Data Centres said in a release.

The new facility is the first building in the data centre campus developed under STT GDC’s 2021-vintage joint venture with ST Telemedia’s owner, Temasek Holdings, and Indonesian conglomerate Triputra Group.

“Data centres form a vital foundation of a thriving digital economy,” said Lionel Yeo, Southeast Asia CEO of STT GDC. “STT Jakarta 1 not only provides critical digital infrastructure of the highest global quality, but also offers differentiated solutions to meet the current and future computing needs of both government and enterprises alike.”

Gold Certified

The carrier-neutral STT Jakarta 1 is located near the Jakarta-Cikampek highway to provide connectivity along international transport and logistics routes, STT GDC said.

A column-less layout in the data hall is meant to offer maximum flexibility in rack placement and density to facilitate efficient use of available space within the data centre. In keeping with STT GDC’s global standards, the LEED Gold-certified STT Jakarta 1 plans to achieve carbon-neutral operations from its start-up.

Also this week, STT GDC announced what it described as a significant investment in a global venture with Firmus Technologies, a provider of highly scaled immersion-cooled computing platforms.

The Singapore-based venture will see the launch of a service offering focused on deep learning AI and visual computing workloads, to be known as Sustainable Metal Cloud. SMC will deliver bare-metal service access to high-performance AI clusters, which include some of the world’s most advanced workload accelerators, including Nvidia’s deep-learning graphics processing units.

Global Reach

STT GDC operates across Singapore, the UK, Germany, India, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.

The Temasek-backed company is investing as much as $1 billion to develop a 124MW data centre campus in Metro Manila alongside Philippine conglomerate Ayala Group. A JV of STT GDC, Ayala and its telecom unit, Globe, broke ground in Fairview, Quezon City last month for a data centre campus spanning 83,000 square metres in gross floor area across four buildings.

Dubbed STT Fairview, the campus has a total investment commitment of $1 billion by the partners and is targeted to open by 2025 with an initial IT capacity of 28MW.

Formerly called KarmanEdge, the JV was formed in March 2022 through a $350 million partnership, with Globe taking a controlling 50 percent stake, STT GDC keeping 40 percent and Ayala holding the remaining 10 percent. Currently the largest listed telecom operator in the Philippines, Globe is controlled by Ayala and Singapore’s Singtel.