Singtel has launched a new data center in Singapore.

Nxera, Singtel Group’s regional data center arm, this week announced the opening of DC Tuas, its largest facility in Singapore.

With 58MW of capacity, the company claimed DC Tuas is Singapore’s highest-capacity data center.

The addition of the 120,000-square-foot (11,148 sqm), eight-storey facility brings Nxera’s total capacity in the city-state to 120MW.

Singtel broke ground on the data center in August 2023, with the facility originally set to go live in 2025.

More than 90 percent of the multi-tenant facility's capacity was pre-leased before launch. The site supports liquid cooling, and reportedly hosts Singapore’s largest direct-to-chip liquid deployment.

Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, said: “The opening of our new AI-ready data center, DC Tuas, is an important milestone for Nxera as we expand our role in enabling AI innovations in Singapore. The ability to deploy higher-density, compute-intensive AI workloads sustainably, is increasingly critical for a strategic market where data center capacity is constrained."

He continued: "As Singapore’s highest power density, most energy efficient, and largest liquid-cooled multi-tenanted data center, DC Tuas reinforces the country’s position as a global AI hub and supports accelerating AI adoption.”

Singtel’s Tuas cable landing station, located at 9 Tuas Avenue 3, is the landing point for the i2i, SJC, ADC, Indigo West, and the SMW4, 5, and 6 cables. The SMW3 cable, which previously landed there, has been decommissioned.

Singtel is closing a number of small legacy data centers in Singapore, but still operates several large facilities in the city-state through its Nxera unit.

Nxera is also developing several facilities around Southeast Asia in partnership with local players and expects to grow its total capacity from 200MW to 400MW in the coming years. With more facilities in Batam and Johor due online in the second half of 2026, Nxera’s operational and pipeline capacity is expected to more than double from 200MW in 2026.

Investment firm KKR acquired a 20 percent stake in Singtel’s data center business for $800 million in 2023. KKR and Singtel recently acquired a majority stake in APAC data center STT GDC.

Singapore has had a moratorium on new data center developments since 2019 (although already authorized facilities were allowed to be built after this point), but this is starting to be relaxed.