ArusGridProject
Directory › Singapore › Singapore › Nxera DC West

Nxera DC West

Singapore, Singapore · Singapore market · location approximate to district level

Nxera DC West is a data center project in Singapore, operated by Nxera (Singtel). It is operational. It is planned for 41 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as operational in November 2016.

Open on the mapSuggest a correction
Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
41 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
Nxera (Singtel)
Telco
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: named funder, disclosed client (reported), three or more sources. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusUnlikely

legacy Singtel DC

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.

Stage history

2016-11Operational · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorNxera (Singtel) · Telco
Funder, EquitySingtel

Who uses the compute

Tenant · hyperscalerAlibaba Cloud (Aliyun) · reported, unconfirmed

Anchor tenant of the Jurong (DC West) building at announcement · as of 2015-10-08

Structure Research headline names Aliyun as the anchor tenant. The article body is paywalled and no Singtel or Alibaba statement was found.

Source · Singtel building new S$400m DC in Singapore; anchor tenant: Aliyun (Structure Research, 2015-10-08)

Checked on 2026-10-01. No document names a confirmed user beyond the rows above.

Platform deals that include it

KKR 20% stake in Nxera
Platform capital, 2023-09
US$800m

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

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

ArusGrid estimate, grade CUSD 261 to USD 373

ArusGrid estimate, grade C. Published band for this country. Priced on the hyperscale band, which already reflects anchor deals. No usable capex for this site. Electricity excluded in the band. An estimate, never a quote, computed by fixed rules published on the Colo prices page and never counted in any total.

market band, hyperscale (2024-12)USD 261 to USD 373 datacenterHawk for NTT DC REIT, 2025-07-07
Water and cooling
CoolingWater-cooled chillers Reported source ↗
N+1 chiller plant with 24 hours of make-up water storage at full load.
Possibly linked
The source does not name the project, and more than one project we track fits. We show it on each of them and pin it to none.
UnconfirmedObayashi Singapore Pte Ltd · Main contractor source ↗
This project is one of 3 that fit. The others are Nxera DC Tuas, Nxera Kim Chuan 2.

Sources

  1. datacentermap.com
  2. Singtel to close five legacy data centers in Singapore - report (DatacenterDynamics, 2024-09-11)
  3. Singtel's DC West open for business (DatacenterDynamics, 2017-01-04)
  4. Singtel announces $400 million data center (DatacenterDynamics, 2015-10-09)
  5. Singtel building new S$400m DC in Singapore; anchor tenant: Aliyun (Structure Research, 2015-10-08)
  6. Singapore DC West (Nxera)

More in Singapore

Definitions and sourcing rules · CC BY-NC 4.0 · corrections@arusgrid.com