Bridge Data Centres plans to invest $2.3bn-$4bn in Singapore's digital infrastructure

Bridge Data Centres announced plans to invest S$3 billion to S$5 billion in Singapore's next-generation digital infrastructure. The company said it is uniquely positioned to support hyperscaler customers and global technology companies seeking high-performance, sustainable and scalable data center platforms across Asia Pacific. Bridge said it is on track to expand regional capacity to approximately 2GW The firm operates two facilities in Cyberjaya outside Kuala Lumpur with a third in development. It launched a data center outside Johor in 2022 and is targeting developments in India and Thailand. Bridge is headquartered in Singapore although its facilities have been located in other countries and is owned Singapore has historically been Southeast Asia's premier data center hub owing to its fiber connectivity and prime location. Fears that the data center industry's energy demands would overwhelm the city-state's grid led the government to impose an informal moratorium on new facilities in 2019. This has been gradually lifted since the announcement of a pilot scheme in 2022 that allowed companies to bid for permission to develop new facilities. In 2023 Equinix, GDS, Microsoft and a consortium of AirTrunk and