Dubai-headquartered EDGNEX Data Centers, a subsidiary of Hussain Sajwani’s DAMAC Group, has unveiled plans for a US $2.3 billion hyperscale facility on the eastern fringe of Jakarta, marking one of the largest AI-centric infrastructure investments announced in Southeast Asia to date.
The complex – EDGNEX’s second Indonesian build – will deliver 144 MW of critical IT capacity when fully built out. Land acquisition closed in March 2025 and site works are under way; the operator expects the first 48 MW phase to enter service by December 2026. According to EDGNEX, racks will be engineered for ultra-dense deployments suited to generative AI training clusters, a segment where Indonesia currently lags regional peers on both power availability and network latency.
A targeted power-usage-effectiveness rating of 1.32 puts the project at the higher end of regional efficiency benchmarks. The company says it will rely on a mix of liquid-ready cooling, high-voltage distribution and renewable-energy certificates to minimize carbon intensity. “The scale of emerging AI workloads demands a fundamentally different class of infrastructure,” Hussain Sajwani told reporters, adding that Jakarta’s growing cloud market and its proximity to subsea cable landings made it an obvious expansion node.
The announcement follows EDGNEX’s first Indonesian build – a 19.2 MW data center in the MT Haryono district – scheduled to go live in Q3 2026. Together, the two Jakarta sites lift the company’s committed Indonesian pipeline to more than 160 MW and push total Southeast Asian investment above US $3 billion. Additional campuses are planned or under construction in Bangkok and Johor.
‘1 GW of Installed Capacity by 2028’
Industry analysts say Indonesia’s colocation market is on track to top 1 GW of installed capacity by 2028, buoyed by cloud-first government policy, e-commerce growth and aggressive AI adoption. Yet hyperscale “readiness” would remain a bottleneck: average data center PUE still exceeds 1.6, and power procurement can take up to 36 months. EDGNEX’s new facility, if delivered on schedule, would be among the first in the country to break the 1.35 PUE threshold at scale.
EDGNEX targets more than 300 MW of live capacity across Southeast Asia by 2026 – an ambition that, if realized, would vault the relatively young brand into the region’s top tier of wholesale providers.
