Pranav Hotkar
Singapore, October 27, 2025- Singapore has set aside roughly 20 hectares on Jurong Island to create a purpose-built, low-carbon data-centre park that could accommodate as much as 700 megawatts of IT load, a landmark move to attract hyperscale cloud and AI capacity to the city-state.
The plan, announced by the Economic Development Board (EDB) and JTC and flagged by Minister Tan See Leng at Singapore International Energy Week, places the data-centre site inside a much larger push to turn parts of Jurong Island into a “new energies” cluster. About 300 hectares will be earmarked for renewable and low-carbon fuel projects such as battery storage, hydrogen-ready plants and low/zero-carbon ammonia.
“Jurong Island will be a global test-bed for new energies and low-carbon technologies,” Tan said, underlining the government’s aim to marry industrial scale with decarbonisation.
Crucially, regulators are not just offering land; they are opening a regulatory sandbox to trial biomethane imports and other low-carbon fuel options, signalling a willingness to experiment with fuel mixes and on-site generation to lower the carbon intensity of power serving data centres. That policy signal is aimed at solving the twin constraints Singapore faces, scarce land and an island grid that needs firm, dispatchable power as data demand grows.
Energy incumbents and infrastructure players are already aligning to provide the backbone, from CCGT plants to stacked battery storage pilots, so operators can tap shared energy, storage and utility services rather than individually solving every grid and fuel challenge.
As Tan noted, there has been “increasing interest” from industry players to grow in Singapore, and for hyperscalers, the bundled offering of land, firm power, and low-carbon options could shorten deployment timelines and lower costs.
Implementation will test the idea. Timelines for grid reinforcement, commercial offtake deals and the success of biomethane and hydrogen pilots will decide whether Jurong’s new data-centre park becomes a regional magnet for AI and cloud capacity, or a policy experiment other nations study and copy.
