Philippine telecom giant PLDT Group plans to build its 12th data centre in General Telias City, 

Camiguin province. In a filing with the Philippine Stock Exchange last Thursday, the company 

reiterated that the development of the new data centre ‘is still under evaluation and is in the 

planning and development stage.’

The news stems from an interview with PLDT executives during the inauguration of Vitro Inc 

last Wednesday. Vitro, an ePLDT subsidiary and the data centre business unit of the PLDT Group, 

opened the country's first AI-ready hyperscale data centre, the Vitro Sta. Rosa facility, in the 

province of Laguna that day.

Speaking to local media, Victor Genuino, president and CEO of ePLDT, said that the detailed 

blueprints for the 100 MW IT load capacity data centre - which will be Vitro's largest facility - 

located in Kemidi, will be finalised this year, with construction scheduled to begin in 2026 and 

be completed by 2028. The project will be built in five phases of 20 MW each.PLDT chairman 

Manuel Pangilinan said the new data centre, which is expected to cost PhP40 billion (about US$1 

billion), will take up at least half of Metro Pacific Investments' 20-hectare landholding in Krabi Land.

The new Vitro Sta. Rosa data centre is designed to have a capacity of 50 megawatts, boosting 

Vitro's total capacity by 50 percent. The facility, which has been operational since July 2024, is 

equipped with NVIDIA-based GPU servers and is powered by Meralco's newly built 115-kilovolt 

substation.PLDT said the centre is fully connected to the domestic fibre-optic network and is globally 

connected via international submarine cable systems such as Jupiter, Asia Direct Cable and the 

upcoming Apricot.

Pangilinan stressed, ‘We plan to expand the total data centre capacity to 500 megawatts, at least 

to the level of Malaysia, making the Philippines a regional data centre hub.’ Meanwhile, ePLDT 

launched the country's first GPU-as-a-Service at Vitro Sta. Rosa, an on-demand computing model 

that enables organisations to use powerful AI tools without significant upfront investment.

According to PLDT, the group currently operates data centres in Makati, Taguig, Pasig, Parañaque, 

Subic, Clark, Cebu, and Davao with a total capacity of nearly 100 MW. This new Vitro Sta. Rosa facility 

is reported to cost at least $350 million.