The trio China Telecom Global,Daily-Tech and Global Switch have come together to launch Global Switch’s Singapore Woodlands data centre.
Built at a cost of$280m,the new 269,097 sq ft data centre is located in the Woodlands district in the north of Singapore.
The company have revealed that it is physically distanced from the existing Global Switch Tai Seng data centre,for customers seeking a two site data centre solution.
“Global Switch Singapore Woodlands marks our twelfth,world class data centre and has increased our footprint to 4,000,000 square feet of technical space,”said John Corcoran,CEO of Global Switch. It represents another important milestone for Global Switch and we are delighted to have launched this new data centre with our strategic partners China Telecom Global and Daily-Tech–reinforcing our leadership in providing the best-in-class solutions for customers’seamless and successful business operations across the region.”
The facility’s services are now completely available,and the building is designed to a Power Usage Efficiency(PUE)of 1.34,the lowest available in this country according to the company.
“Our tripartite partnership with Global Switch and Daily-Tech offers a range of strong and reliable data centre and ICT solutions to customers to support their globalisation roadmaps and digitisation transformation initiatives,”said Donald Tan,Executive Vice President of China Telecom Global.
“The Woodlands data centre services will connect perfectly to China Telecom’s network resources of submarine and terrestrial cables and other data centres around the world,setting to become an important element of our worldwide IDC coverage.
“We will invest more resources and expertise in bringing professional IDC operation services to our customers globally and help them solve communications challenges they encountered in exploring the APAC market.”The companies also added that the Singapore Woodlands data centre services are powered by 30MVA of utility power supply capacity,coming from two separate incoming supplies.
“This is a milestone entry into the Southeast Asian countries’market for Daily-Tech through our strategic business partnership,”said Li Qiang,Chairman of Daily-Tech.
“Customers in the region–particularly those looking to expand through China’s Belt and Road projects,will now find more convenient connections and access to well-managed services to support their business growth.“This partnership offers customers commitment,a track record in servicing and bespoke services,and best practice management.”
Global Switch is also adding a further 120,000 sq ft to its existing campus with its second data centre in Frankfurt,which will also be the third data centre under the partnership of the three companies.
