JAKARTA – Digital Realty Bersama (DRB), a data centre operator owned by the Saratoga Group and US-based Digital Realty, is set to begin expanding its in-town data centre at the CGK 11 campus in South Jakarta from mid-2026.

DRB currently operates two data centre campuses in West Jakarta (CGK 10) and South Jakarta (CGK 11), with a combined capacity of around 6.4 MW.

Andha Yudha Permana, Director of Business and Commercial at DRB, said utilisation at CGK 10 has reached 95% of its total 1.4 MW capacity.

Meanwhile, CGK 11—which only began operations in late 2024—has already recorded utilisation of 60% of its 5 MW capacity.

“Having reached 60%, we have decided to expand at the back—we already have the land. We will expand by approximately 27 MW,” Andha said during a media gathering at the CGK 11 campus in South Jakarta on Wednesday (22/4).

The expansion will lift DRB’s total in-town data centre capacity more than fivefold, from 6.4 MW to 33.4 MW.

Krishna Worotikan, Chief Financial Officer of DRB, expressed confidence that the expansion will be absorbed by strong market demand.

He added that the CGK 11 expansion will be carried out in phases, starting in the second half of 2026. “We expect to begin within three months,” he said.

Following the CGK 11 expansion, DRB also plans to increase capacity at the CGK 10 campus by building two new data centres, with construction expected to begin in 2027.

As an in-town data centre operator, Krishna noted that DRB offers low-latency characteristics, making it suitable for enterprise clients requiring fast connectivity, such as those in banking and financial services.

He also highlighted that demand is increasingly coming from Chinese hyperscalers such as Alibaba and Tencent, which are leasing capacity to support cloud services for e-commerce.

“They are not building data centres here—they are leasing,” Krishna told IDNFinancials.com on the same occasion.

He further pointed to a growing trend among regional and global players shifting their data hosting activities to Indonesia.

According to him, Indonesia has strong potential to close the data centre supply gap in Southeast Asia, particularly as Singapore considers limiting new data centre developments due to constraints in water and electricity supply.

“With land, power, and water availability, Indonesia is a strategic location for regional and global players to host data. From here, they can serve Asia, ASEAN, and beyond,” Krishna said. (ZH)