Telkom eyes major data centre expansion

Major undertaking: Satya speaks at an event titled “Microsoft Build: AI Day” in Jakarta. The Microsoft CEO said the company would invest US$1.7bil over the next four years in new cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia. — AP

JAKARTA: State-owned telecom company PT Telkom Indonesia is seeking to rapidly expand its data centre business in a bid to capitalise on the surging demand for data storage, particularly that driven by artificial intelligence (AI) development.

Through the group’s subsidiary PT Telkom Data Ekosistem (TDE), also known as NeutraDC, Telkom aims to increase its data centre capacity to 500 megawatts (MW), both domestically and internationally, by 2030.