Vitro is planning to build a new AI-ready data center in South Luzon, the Philippines, to meet the country's growing demand for AI and high-performance computing.

If built, the data center will be “no less than 100MW,” according to ePLDT and Vitro president and CEO Victor Genuino.

The new data center will be strategically located in Laguna province of the Philippines, close to its 50MW Vitro Sta. Rosa facility.

“I think our next data center will have to be in Luzon. It has to be South Luzon because we envisioned Vitro Santa Rosa to be the hub,” said Genuino.

Vitro has also activated Sta. Rosa’s network infrastructure, with the data center now offering interconnection with other Vitro sites nationwide.

In addition, PLDT has announced it will host a GPUaaS at the Vitro Sta. Rosa, in partnership with Vitro. GPUaaS will provide Vitro’s customers immediate access to AI and HPC technology, which can perform complex and high-computing tasks such as generative AI and large language model use cases.

According to the company, Sta. Rosa is designed to be AI-ready, capable of handling up to 50kW per rack, catering to Nvidia’s latest GPU chips, such as the H100 and H200.

“AI-readiness is our key priority in 2025 as we provide both our public and private sector customers access to HPC using our AI-ready data center infrastructure where we will also host our soon-to-launch GPUaaS offerings,” Genuino said.

Sta. Rosa was energized in July. The data center is anticipated to have an initial IT capacity of 10MW. According to the Vitro website, this is expandable to 36MW across more than 13,000 sqm (139,931 sq ft) of white space.

Plans for the Sta. Rosa data center were first shared in February 2022, with the company breaking ground the next month. At the time, it was described as a 100MW data center project.

Vitro is a subsidiary of ePLDT and the data center arm of PLDT Inc. Vitro was established by ePLDT in 2000 and has 11 operational data centers across the country.