Singapore’s Digital Edge to Build $4.5B Indonesia Data Centre Campus

Digital Edge on Wednesday announced a $4.5 billion investment to build a hyperscale data centre campus in Indonesia, marking the biggest commitment yet for the Singapore-based company backed by infrastructure fund manager Stonepeak.

Located east of Jakarta at GIIC Industrial Estate in Bekasi regency, the three-building CGK Campus will provide 500 megawatts of IT capacity at full development, with scalability up to 1 gigawatt, Digital Edge said in a release. The first building is scheduled to enter service by the fourth quarter of this year, with the others to follow in the first and second quarters of 2027.

Digital Edge didn’t disclose funding sources for the project, but the company said in October that it had secured a $325 million corporate facility from PT Bank Central Asia to support its expansion in the Jakarta area.

“The CGK Campus is a pivotal milestone in our APAC strategy and our largest infrastructure investment to date,” said Digital Edge CEO John Freeman. “This landmark investment will enable us to drive the next decade of innovation, cloud adoption, and digital services across Indonesia and the broader region.”

Indonet Connectivity

Aimed at next-generation AI workloads, the carrier-neutral CGK Campus targets an annualised power usage effectiveness of 1.25. PUE is the ratio of the amount of power entering a data centre to the power used to run the IT equipment within it.

The facility is expected to feature direct-to-chip liquid cooling, recycled water systems and renewable energy integration, while making use of the fibre and network assets of Indonet, Digital Edge’s wholly owned Indonesian telecom subsidiary.

“Our infrastructure provides the connectivity foundation for CGK Campus,” said Indonet CEO Andy Rigoli. “Our new routes to the GIIC campus are built 100 percent underground, a design that significantly enhances reliability and resilience compared to traditional deployments.”

Situated less than 15 kilometres (9 miles) from Jakarta’s key data centre clusters and 40 kilometres from Digital Edge’s downtown EDGE1 and EDGE2 facilities, the CGK Campus will offer low-latency access to the capital’s business districts while anchoring Indonesia’s broader digital ecosystem, the Singaporean company said.

Tokyo Switched On

News of the Indonesia megaproject comes after Digital Edge in September announced the opening of its central Tokyo data centre developed with Japanese builder Hulic.

TYO7 lies 1 kilometre (0.6 miles) from Japan’s central network hub at Otemachi and less than 300 metres (328 yards) from Digital Edge’s existing TYO2. The facility is the platform’s seventh data centre in Tokyo and ninth in Japan.

Also in September, Digital Edge broke ground on its maiden facility in Thailand after first announcing the project in June.

Developed through a joint venture with local firm B Grimm Power, the 100MW data centre in Chonburi province east of Bangkok is part of a $1 billion Thai venture to develop hyperscale and AI-ready campuses across the kingdom.