Gaw Capital Partners and Centrin Data have engaged Singapore-based SpaceDC to sell rack space and services at their joint venture’s data centres in China.
Hong Kong family-run firm Gaw and Beijing-headquartered Centrin set up the JV in 2019 as the basis for a data centre investment fund seeded with a facility built by Centrin in Kunshan, a city just outside of Shanghai in Jiangsu province.
“Our data centres are strategically located and specifically designed with high security and rich network connections with a particular focus for the financial services customers,” Centrin CEO Yang Yu said in a release. “SpaceDC and Centrin Data will have a long and prosperous partnership as our companies share a common vision for our customers globally.”
The joint venture’s projects include the Kunshan data centre, one in Hubei provincial capital Wuhan and two others, a Gaw representative told Mingtiandi on Wednesday.
Kunshan Facility Completed
The two-phase data centre campus in Kunshan’s Huaqiao town spans a floor area of 165,744 square metres (over 1.7 million square feet). The first phase featured a 6,400-rack facility occupied by tech giant Tencent, which moved into the facility in 2018.
Phase 2, accommodating 25,600 additional server racks, has since been completed, Gaw said. The campus has its own 220-kilovolt substation with 600-megawatt power capacity and a 192MW IT capacity.
The Wuhan data centre’s planned construction includes a floor area of 206,532 square metres with 40,000 racks and installed capacity of 480,000 servers. The project will be built in a two-stage development with a total capacity of 225MW, including 70MW in the first phase.
SpaceDC, led by founder and CEO Darren Hawkins, highlighted the two data centres’ strong financial customer base as a point in their favour.
“With China opening the borders to foreign financial institutions, our customers are asking for an experienced data centre operator in key cities like Wuhan and Kunshan,” said Jeffrey Tay, executive vice president of strategic partnerships for SpaceDC. “A reputation for resilient facility with high security protocols for the financial services sector, Centrin Data more than delivers what our customers are looking for.”
Going Green in Manila
Known as Polymer Connected before its rebranding in late 2019, SpaceDC in February announced plans to develop a 72MW campus in the eastern Greater Manila area as its first project in the Philippines and the country’s first green data centre.
The campus east of Manila will encompass three four-storey facilities spanning a total of 43,000 square metres (462,850 square feet) in combined floor area.
Other SpaceDC projects include a 48MW facility on Jakarta’s eastern fringe and a 48MW in India’s Noida planned city.
SpaceDC’s announcement of its entry in the Philippine digital infrastructure market came shortly after another Singapore player, Digital Edge, launched its Manila operations through a $100 million joint venture with a local real estate firm to build a 10MW facility.
Leave a Reply