Keppel has began development on a floating information centre mission in Singapore, a 25MW facility designed to fight land and water constraints affecting information centre improvement.
The corporate disclosed the development plans in its first-quarter 2026 enterprise replace, aiming to start work on the Keppel DC SGP 9 in mid-2026 at its Genting Lane campus.
Singapore capability guidelines
Singapore manages new information centre capability by means of formal allocation workout routines. In December 2025, the Financial Growth Board and Infocomm Media Growth Authority launched a second ‘Knowledge Centre – Name for Utility’, making not less than 200MW of capability out there.
The decision requires candidates to fulfill sustainability requirements, together with a Inexperienced Mark for Knowledge Centres 2024 Platinum certification, facility-level energy use effectiveness of 1.25 or higher at full IT load, and not less than 50% energy from inexperienced power sources.
Keppel started exploring the floating information centre park idea in 2019 and secured regulatory approval in 2023, in line with Knowledge Centre Dynamics. It cited Keppel’s 2025 annual report as being funded by Keppel Knowledge Centre Fund II and is scheduled to go dwell in 2028.
Floating design and cooling
In accordance with Keppel’s 2025 surroundings report, SGP 9 is to incorporate a four-storey, 19.2MW waterborne module and shoreside infrastructure occupying about 9,870m2 of land and seven,580m2 of sea floor. The mission is anticipated to be situated at 25 Loyang Crescent in Singapore.
Keppel says its floating information centre idea is designed for near-shore places and goals to make use of seawater for cooling, lowering reliance on potable or industrial water utilized in standard information centres. The idea is described as modular, with floating models that may be redeployed in different places.
Keppel’s Might 2025 investor presentation listed subsea cables as a part of its wider digital infrastructure ecosystem, with information centres, energy, and associated companies.
World floating information centre tasks
Floating information centre tasks stay restricted globally. Most examples of floating information centres are nonetheless on the pilot, platform improvement, or patent levels.
- Nautilus Knowledge Applied sciences launched a 6.5MW barge-based information centre in Stockton, California, in 2021. The 20,000ft2 facility was later put up on the market in 2024 after Nautilus moved its enterprise focus to cooling infrastructure.
- In France, Denv-R has positioned a small containerised information centre on a floating platform in Nantes.
- A consortium of Japanese firms introduced a pilot mission earlier this yr to deploy an offshore floating information centre off the coast of Yokohama with photo voltaic and battery storage techniques.
- Japanese transport firm Mitsui O.S.Ok. Strains has partnered with power techniques supplier Kinetics and Hitachi to develop a floating information centre platform.
(Photograph by Markus Stickling)
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