A 300MW data center campus is being planned in the Philippines.
The Philippines News Agency and others report that Manila-based construction and engineering firm Endec Group, alongside Narra Technology Park Development Inc., have signed a lease contract deal for a 47-hectare site within the New Clark City (NCC).
Located within the Clark Science City area of NCC, the planned Narra Technology Park will house a 300MW hyperscale data center campus, to be built in three 100MW phases. Work on the first phase is reportedly set to begin in August.
Endec chairman William Johnson said the company would be investing $890 million in each phase, with the first 100MW targeted to be operational in the fourth quarter of 2025.
“We expect the Narra Technology Park to put the Philippines on the map in the hyperscale data center market,” he said.
“We selected NCC in Tarlac due to several factors. Firstly, the availability of large land parcels in the area allowed us to achieve the scale required for a project of this magnitude,” Johnson continued. “Secondly, NCC’s master-planned environment provided an ideal setting for the development of a modern hyperscale data center hub.”
Located some 130km north of Manila, New Clark City is a planned community currently undergoing development, located within the Clark Special Economic Zone in the towns of Bamban and Capas in Tarlac province. Covering approximately 9,450 hectares (23,400 acres), NCC is owned and managed by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority BCDA.
Endec has reportedly signed a 50-year lease, expandable up to 25 years. The Tarlac local government will have a 60-40 profit sharing agreement with BCDA for the lease; The 47-hectare land is part of the 50-hectare parcel of land in NCC allocated by BCDA to the Tarlac government.
Last year President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. announced that two companies were in negotiations to develop data centers in NCC; Endec and Diode Ventures.
