ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is announcing artificial intelligence (AI) readiness in its data centers across South-east Asia (SEA).
The digital economy is a major growth driver for SEA; reports show that digital economy growth continues to outpace gross domestic product (GDP) growth across SEA. Technologies such as AI will be crucial to this continued growth, with a sufficient level of AI-readiness required to enable all markets across the region to take advantage of the economic opportunities brought to the table.
SEA is seeing a rise in data center investments to meet the escalating demand for AI infrastructure and services. This is highlighted by STT GDC’s recent expansions in Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia.
STT GDC is currently the first international operator with a data center footprint across all six major economies within SEA – including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam – with more than 500MW of data center capacity, both operational and under construction.
Part of this capacity is designed to cater to AI clusters and general-purpose computing workloads. AI clusters are already operational in STT GDC’s data centres in both Singapore and Thailand today, with additional AI clusters expected to be operational in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia within the next two years.
These active AI clusters deliver flexible and cost-effective access to hyperscale accelerated computing clusters powered by the latest graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies for enterprise, government, and cloud service providers, perfect for rapidly deploying AI model training and inference workloads across various industries.
The STT GDC data centers across SEA are designed and equipped to accommodate the latest GPU chips – including NVIDIA’s Blackwell products – with substantial thermal design power, resulting in higher density powered racks ranging from 10 to 150KW per rack.
These data centers feature advanced cooling solutions that support both liquid immersion cooling and direct-to-chip cooling technologies. This is the result of trials that started in 2022 with chassis-level precision immersion, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, and actively collaborating with leading industry players on various cooling technologies.
“STT GDC is at the forefront of supporting businesses’ journeys from the digital era to the intelligent era across SEA and globally, driven by accelerated computing as a key driver of AI innovation. We are committed to meeting the needs of our customers where they are, and starting with SEA, we will continue to bring to bear our expertise in delivering the agile digital infrastructure needed to support accelerated computing workloads such as AI and beyond, while ensuring our data centres are built to meet the highest sustainability standards, aligning with STT GDC’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2030,” said Lionel Yeo, Chief Executive Officer, Southeast Asia, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres.
