DIGITAL EDGE
new facilities across the region. What’ s clear is that the potential for growth is only continuing to rise.
“ In APAC, I think we’ re in the early innings,” John says.“ The US is more advanced when it comes to AI deployments, but – given the scarcity of supply in the US – a lot of hyperscalers and AI companies are starting to look to deploy in Asia. So we envision exponential growth in the next few years.”
John references some of the major players as examples, who pulled back from new data centre investments earlier in the year.
“ We’ re mindful of that and believe this is a short-term market adjustment,” he explains.“ To address this uncertainty, I think any service provider, including Digital Edge, needs to be flexible on how they design their data centres when building on spec. We need to design our buildings to cater to 80 % and adjust the remaining 20 % to satisfy a particular customer’ s requirements near real time.
“ We need to make sure that our facilities and infrastructure are able to flex depending on who requires that capacity today as well as tomorrow.”
With its funding secured and clear sustainability frameworks, Digital Edge intends to expand its business significantly within the next two years.
“ We have 24 data centres, either in operations or currently under development,” John says.“ We’ re going to substantially scale our platform over the next 24 months – with a view to keep supporting our customers as they grow their business across APAC.”
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