Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. said wholly-owned unit ePLDT is investing P1.3 billion to build a new data center in Clark Special Economic and Freeport Zone in Pampanga, its fifth facility under the Vitro Data Center line.
PLDT said together with the three data centers operated by ePLDT subsidiary IP Converge Data Services, the group would now have eight data centers with rack capacity of over 8,000, making it the largest in the country.
PLDT said the continued expansion in data center facilities was part of its commitment in creating the nation’s digital infrastructure.
Located in the heart of the Clark ecozone, Vitro Clark, once fully operational, will cater to the region’s thriving business communities and planned IT hubs in Central Luzon that could also serve the disaster recovery requirements for other businesses elsewhere.
The construction of the Vitro Clark facility will boost the growth of ICT-demanding industries in the area like business process outsourcing, outsourcing and offshoring and retail.
“This new data center will be compliant to global standards with enough rack space to accommodate the production requirements of the enterprises based here in Luzon, as well as the disaster recovery requirements of those based elsewhere,” said PLDT executive vice president and ePLDT president and chief executive Eric Alberto.
“We are confident that the PLDT Group will again make our mark in Philippine ICT history,” said Alberto.
“We are not doing this just for the prestige of becoming the largest data center operator in the country. We are doing this because we want to enable local enterprises to compete in the global arena and help fulfill our country’s destiny to become the next Asian Economic Tiger,” he said.
Adding an additional 1,230 rack capacity to the PLDT Group, the five-story building will have eight level access security control and redundant infrastructures to ensure highest uptime service level.