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The Singapore data centre landscape is entering its next stage of development, putting in place regulations and policies to ensure that Singapore’s digital infrastructure architecture is prepared to cater for the upcoming wave of AI implementation in the region. Singapore recognizes its hub status in the ASEAN and broader APAC region when it comes to digital infrastructure and connectivity, and is now looking to prioritize data centre capacity within the country for high-value, connectivity-centric workloads that build and enhance upon its hub status.
The primary mechanism that the Singapore government has put in place to allocate data centre capacity is called the DC-CFA program, where data centre providers, developers and hyperscalers have to apply and meet certain efficiency, sustainability and economic growth criteria in order to get new data centre capacity in the country. The first iteration of this program, DC-CFA1, saw the allocation of 80MW of data centre capacity across four different providers that span data centre operators and hyperscalers. These DC-CFA1 builds are currently under development with most of them expected to become operational in eary 2027.
In the meantime, Singapore is onto the second phase of its DC-CFA program, DC-CFA2, which increases the allocation capacity from 80MW (DC-CFA1) to 200MW while further revealing a pathway to an additional 500MW of data centre capacity through its new Jurong Island data centre park announcement.
The shifts in the Singapore data centre landscape increasingly favour established, global data centre operators and hyperscalers that have the scale and resources to meaningfully impact the Singaporean economy, while meeting sustainability and compliance requirements. This will likely result in increased hyperscale self-build activity, while operators without at least a regional footprint or connectivity-centric value proposition will need to look at alternative markets or partnerships.
This report is an excellent resource for any service provider, investor or enterprise end user looking to understand and project the data centre market in Singapore or find a service provider. The methodology applied continues to be the most robust in the industry. We track supply on a critical IT power basis, analyzing the full spectrum of the market that captures hyperscale self-builds, enterprise and hyperscale segments (which have now been further divided into more granular categories), and aggregate inventory in multiple tiers according to build status, absorption rates and maximum capacity levels. Hyperscale cloud nodes and on-ramps are mapped and a complete directory is provided.
