Nxera, the data centre arm of Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) Group, has opened a 58-megawatt facility in Tuas designed for the higher rack densities required by AI workloads.
Known as DC Tuas, the 120,000-square-foot, eight-storey complex lifts Nxera’s total Singapore capacity to 120MW. More than 90% of the site’s capacity was committed to customers before the launch.
To support energy-guzzling AI systems, the carrier-neutral, multi-tenanted facility deploys direct-to-chip liquid cooling, which offers more efficient heat extraction than conventional methods while reducing energy and water use.
Besides that, DC Tuas incorporates smart thermal features and high-efficiency electrical systems to optimise performance in Singapore’s tropical climate. It also leverages solar power alongside rainwater harvesting, condensate reuse and blowdown recovery.
These efforts have resulted in DC Tuas achieving a power-usage effectiveness ratio of 1.25 and meeting the Green Mark Platinum standard awarded by Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority and Infocomm Media Development Authority.
According to Nxera, DC Tuas is Singapore’s only hyperconnected data centre integrated with a cable landing station, providing direct access to international and domestic networks. This will deliver lower latency and stronger reliability for mission-critical applications while allowing customers to connect to multiple carriers.
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“The opening of our new AI-ready data centre, DC Tuas, is an important milestone for Nxera as we expand our role in enabling AI innovations in Singapore. The ability to deploy higher-density, compute-intensive AI workloads sustainably is increasingly critical for a strategic market where data centre capacity is constrained,” says Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit.
With DC Tuas now operational, Nxera continues to expand its data centre footprint across Asia, with additional AI-ready capacity coming onstream in Batam and Johor in the second half of 2026.
Nxera’s operational and pipeline capacity is expected to more than double from 200MW in 2026 to over 400MW in the mid-term.
