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STT Fairview (STT GDC 'Polaris' campus)

Name: STT Fairview (STT GDC 'Polaris' campus)
Address: Quezon City, Metro Manila, PH

Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines · Greater Manila market · location approximate to district level

STT Fairview (STT GDC 'Polaris' campus) is a data center project in Quezon City, Philippines, operated by STT GDC Philippines. It is operational. It is planned for 124 MW of IT load. The operator reports 32 MW running.

Latest change on record: moved to operational on 4 August 2026.

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Stage

Operational

Planned IT load

124 MW

Running now

32 MW

Operator

STT GDC Philippines

Joint venture

AI workloads

Likely

Evidence grade

Verified

Will it get built?Built7 of 7 gates passed

✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.

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How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. On record: named funder, disclosed client (reported), committed or approved capital, dated, sized phase, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

124MW greenfield campus; STT GDC states the buildings are engineered to house liquid-cooled solutions on customer request (DCD, May 2023); marketed as the country's largest AI-ready campus; hyperscaler anchor tenant reported (Inquirer, May 2025). No dated source for actual liquid cooling installed or GPUs deployed, so 'likely' not 'confirmed'.

Access to AI chips

GradeNo US licence required

This country carries no US destination-based licence requirement for advanced AI chips as the rules are enforced today. Access is a commercial matter between the project and its vendors. Criteria.

Phases

Fairview 1 (built out) · Operational32 MW, target 2026

Fairview 2 · Announced32 MW, target 2027

Stage history

2023-05-18Under construction · datacenterdynamics.com

2026-08-04Operational · insiderph.com

Who is behind it

OperatorSTT GDC Philippines · Joint venture

Funder, Joint venture partnerGlobe Telecom

Funder, Joint venture partnerAyala Corporation

Funder, EquityKKR

Funder, EquitySingtel

Who uses the compute

Tenant · hyperscalerUndisclosed global cloud service provider (anchor tenant) · reported, unconfirmed

First anchor tenant at STT Fairview; MW not stated · as of 2025-05-14

Philippine Daily Inquirer quotes STT GDC Philippines CEO Carlo Malana that a global cloud service provider signed as first anchor tenant, name withheld for confidentiality. No PSE disclosure by Globe found. Adds the dated source to the existing reported client.

Source · Globe data center bags hyperscaler deal for Fairview facility (Philippine Daily Inquirer, 2025-05-14)

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2025-05US$1bn

The figure covers the whole campus.

Platform deals that include it

KKR + Singtel acquisition of STT GDC (platform M&A)
Platform acquisition, 2026-09-01US$5.1bn

STT GDC Philippines x MPower 40.5MW clean power supply
Power dealNot disclosed

Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.

Project team

Main contractorFirst Balfour-Leighton Asia JV · Nov 2023 Confirmed source ↗

Phase 1 general contractor (civil, structural, architectural, MEPF)

Grid and substation worksMeralco Energy, Inc. (MSERV) · May 2024 Reported source ↗

Supply and installation of high-voltage gas-insulated switchgear, high-voltage oil-immersed transformers and medium-voltage dry-type transformers.

Grid and substation worksMiescor (Meralco Industrial Engineering Services Corporation) · PHP 220m · Feb 2025 · completed Reported source ↗

Joint construction of the 115kV in-building dual-feed switching station for STT Fairview (Polaris), with Harmonic System Inc.

Grid and substation worksHarmonic System Inc. · Feb 2025 · completed Reported source ↗

Joint construction of the 115kV switching station with Miescor.

Power supply

Dedicated substationMeralco · 115kV · Feb 2025 Reported source ↗

Dual-feed Polaris switching station, PHP220m, built with MIESCOR

Renewable power dealMPower (Meralco) · 40.5 MW · Apr 2026 Reported source ↗

10-year renewable supply shared with STT Cavite 2 · Applies to the whole campus.

Water and cooling

CoolingAir cooled · design PUE <1.4 Confirmed source ↗

N+4 high efficiency adiabatic air-cooled chillers in a ring configuration, with liquid cooling readiness. Factsheet covers the Fairview 1 building of 28MW IT.