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Global Switch Singapore Woodlands data center

Singapore, Singapore · Singapore market

Global Switch Singapore Woodlands is a data center project in Singapore, operated by Global Switch. It is operational. It is planned for 22 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as operational on 8 March 2019.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
22 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
Global Switch
Colocation
AI workloads
Unlikely
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.

How Singapore approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Singapore.

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. On record: disclosed client (confirmed), committed or approved capital, three or more sources. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusUnlikely

2017 air-cooled build

Access to AI chips

GradeLicence required for a party

A party to this project (its operator, that operator's group, a funder, or a confirmed client) is headquartered in China or Macau or has an ultimate parent there. US rules require a licence for advanced AI chips destined to such entities wherever they are located. This describes the rule and says nothing about whether a licence was sought, granted or refused. Criteria.

No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced · No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced (2026-09-27) source

Stage history

2019-03-08Operational · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorGlobal Switch · Colocation

Who uses the compute

Tenant · telcoChina Telecom Global · confirmed

400 racks, over 2,400 sq m, planned to grow to 2,400 racks · as of 2019-03-08

Named tenant in launch coverage and Global Switch release on Woodlands

Source · Global Switch launches 30MVA Singapore data center (DCD, 2019-03-08)

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2017-08S$280m (about US$205m)
Project team
Engineering consultantPM Group · completed Confirmed source ↗
Architectural and structural peer review, quality monitoring and design review
Main contractorGammon Construction · S$253m (≈US$189m) · May 2018 · completed Reported source ↗
Six-storey facility with ten data halls, 25,000 sqm technical space
Power supply
Grid supplySP Group · 30 MVA · Mar 2019 Inferred by ArusGrid source ↗
Connected to two substations via separate redundant feeds; 18 DRUPS units; utility name inferred
Why we think so. SP Group is Singapore's sole grid operator
Water and cooling
CoolingWater-cooled chillers · design PUE 1.34 Reported source ↗
chillers in plant room, technology not specified

Sources

  1. datacenterdynamics.com
  2. globalswitch.com
  3. Global Switch and partners launch new Singapore data centre (DataCenterNews Asia, 2019-03-07)
  4. Gammon Construction to build Global Switch's Singapore data center (DCD, 2018-05-17)
  5. Woodlands Data Centre Project (PM Group)
  6. Global Switch receives planning consent for new Singapore data centre (Global Switch)
  7. Global Switch Brochure Singapore Woodlands (Global Switch)

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