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PLDT begins construction on largest data-center campus in the Philippines

by Kali Persall

PLDT, a Filipino telecommunications, internet and digital service holdings company that was formerly known as the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, has broken ground on its 11th and largest hyperscale data-center facility.

The facility — dubbed VITRO Sta. Rosa — is a five-hectare (12-acre) property in the booming industrial city of Sta. Rosa, and is the first in a series of data-center builds totaling a power capacity of 100 megawatts. It will be the country's largest data-center campus by far.

The data-center facility is Tier-3 certified and Tier-4 ready, and will boast the highest level of network diversity and resilience with at least three fiber routes from PLDT, augmented by routes from other carriers.

VITRO Sta. Rosa will seek to expand PLDT’s network of world-class data centers and position the Philippines as the next digital hub and destination in Asia Pacific.

“With VITRO Sta. Rosa, we aim to set the benchmark in infrastructure

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