A new era in transformation
We live in an exciting era of rapid digitalisation, cloud and AI adoption. Reliable, high quality digital infrastructure has become the backbone of today’s societies and economies, facilitating commerce, fostering innovation and connecting people.
In line with the Group’s strategic reset to develop new growth engines, Digital InfraCo was carved out as a new entity and a catalyst for innovation and economic growth in the region and beyond. Our diverse portfolio of businesses includes the Group’s regional data centres, subsea cable and satellite carriers as well as Paragon, our patented digital acceleration platform for 5G multi-access edge compute and cloud orchestration. We also have plans to offer GPU-as-a-Service to empower and support enterprises with the adoption of AI.
Boosting innovation with regional data centre platform
Singapore is a key data centre hub with excellent connectivity, making it an ideal base for Nxera’s expansion into the region to capture the rising demand from the wave of digital transformation. To reflect our strong leadership position in this space, we launched our regional data centre brand, Nxera, derived from ‘next era’; two words that herald a new generation of sustainable, hyper-connected and AI-ready data centres in this region. We aim to develop and grow the industry’s most sustainable, next-generation digital assets with extensive and diverse local and international network connectivity for high intensity compute and AI workloads.
We are glad to have the support of leading global investment firm KKR as we scale Nxera to become a regional platform and leader. With KKR’s commitment of up to S$1.1 billion for a 20% stake and expertise in data centres and critical telecommunication infrastructure, we are able to accelerate our expansion across the Asia Pacific. Their investment is also a strong endorsement of Nxera, placing the value of our data centre business at S$5.5 billion.
Last August, we broke ground on Singapore’s highest power density, hyper-connected green data centre, DC Tuas. When operational in early 2026, DC Tuas will offer 58MW of capacity. With a power usage efficiency of less than 1.3 at full load, DC Tuas will feature a sustainable design and build, as well as next-generation liquid cooling systems. We are also developing partnerships to further improve water usage effectiveness.
Besides Singapore, we are growing Nxera’s portfolio with next-generation data centres in Thailand and Indonesia which will more than double our total operational capacity from the existing 62MW to over 155MW. We aim to reach more than 200MW in the next three years and we will be entering new markets such as Malaysia, and also exploring others in the region.
We strongly believe that digitalisation does not have to come at the expense of decarbonisation and we intend to reach net-zero operational emissions by 2028. We will be the first data centre operator to use sustainable energy from the grid to reduce our overall carbon footprint. We will also support our customers in their green transition journey, working closely with our ecosystem of energy partners to help them access a suite of carbon offset solutions.
Having the right talent is also key to Nxera’s success. We are partnering with various institutes of higher learning to form a Regional Sustainable Data Centre Academy through which we will develop a specially curated sustainable data centre curriculum to grow the expertise in this field. Industry players in Singapore and our regional joint ventures can also tap on this Academy to develop their talent pipelines.
Advancing economies with cutting-edge connectivity solutions
Our comprehensive network of subsea fibre-optic cables continues to provide customers with the best country-tocountry connectivity in Asia Pacific. We signed an MOU with Viettel to plan and develop a submarine cable system directly connecting Vietnam and Singapore. This cable system is scheduled to be operational by the second quarter of 2027. Another noteworthy milestone is the addition of multi-orbit satellite connectivity solutions to our comprehensive carrier service portfolio – aimed at ensuring high reliability, high speed performance and top-tier quality experiences for our customers. These include the launch of a new satellite that will go into orbit in mid- 2027, which will be ready for commercial service in early 2028 and the integration of Starlink services. We have also won multiple contracts to host the gateways of some geostationary equatorial orbit (GEO) and non-GEO communications and earth observation satellite operators to land their traffic in Singapore to connect to the internet and their public/private cloud service providers.
Driving 5G adoption with industry-leading Paragon
Paragon, our patented and comprehensive orchestration platform, continues to gain traction and generate significant interest among telco operators and enterprises.
Globally, enterprises have been actively embracing 5G and edge computing. Paragon has been key in driving this adoption – enabling faster monetisation of 5G infrastructure and reducing complexities. In the past year, we have extended Paragon’s footprint to five markets – Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Spain and Indonesia. We are also working with technology companies to expand Paragon’s capabilities and network. One such partnership is with Broadcom to combine the advanced capabilities of Singtel’s 5G with VMware’s virtualisation, enabling enterprises to support applications deployed on VMWare with the Paragon platform.
As more telcos adopt this platform, this allows Paragon to further scale – which in turn attracts more technology partners to build more solutions, creating a virtuous network effect of growth. This is extremely advantageous to businesses operating in the smart city and telemedicine domains, as well as automated factories where network and application proximity is critical to real-time, highperformance operations.
Investing for growth
We will continue to build on our strong foundation by innovating and developing new capabilities to achieve the leadership and sustainability goals we have set for ourselves across our data centre, carrier businesses as well as Paragon. Committed to excellence, we strive to redefine the landscape of digital infrastructure and services. Our goal is to drive digital economies forward in innovative and sustainable ways, establishing ourselves as the undisputed leader in the field.
