Broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. is making a large-scale investment in another data center that can carry up to 100 megawatts, to be built in either the Visayas or Mindanao.
Converge CEO and co-founder Dennis Anthony Uy said they are scouting for a site in either the Visayas or Mindanao where his company would put up its potentially biggest data center.
He said the facility would generate an initial capacity of 20 MW, but this can be raised to as high as 100 MW, depending on the demand.
Converge is planning to locate its next data center in either Visayas or Mindanao to enhance the quality of connectivity services outside of Luzon. Converge’s data centers are currently in Luzon, namely, in Angeles, Pampanga – where Uy hails from – and in Caloocan City.
By setting up the data center outside of the metro, Uy is hoping to give consumers in Visayas and Mindanao a quicker link to a facility where applications and information are stored. Simply put, this translates to better internet reliability and speeds for subscribers in the regions.
Uy is preparing Converge to invest more on data centers as it has connected to two submarine cable projects, one spanning Asia-Pacific, the other reaching Northeast Asia.
Recently, the Bifrost Cable System has achieved ready-for-service status and is being geared up to begin data transport by November or December.
Bifrost is the world’s first subsea cable bridging Singapore and the US West Coast via Indonesia through the Java Sea and Celebes Sea, making it more than 20,000 kilometers long.
Converge invested at least $130 million to hook into Bifrost, which is able to move data between Singapore and the US in under 165 milliseconds. Bifrost injects an additional 260 Tbps capacity for Asia-Pacific.
Converge is also a party to the Southeast Asia-Hainan-Hong Kong Express Cable System, which extends for over 5,000 kilometers. The project traverses multiple segments of Asia, particularly Hainan, China; Hong Kong; Malaysia; the Philippines and Singapore.
Subsea cable projects facilitate the transfer of data among and between territories, consequently benefiting consumers by improving the speed of uploading and downloading digital content.
They are complemented by data centers, another important asset in the digital era, as they safely keep the applications and information of tech giants like Amazon, Google and Meta.