Close to customers and markets
Financial, interactive and cloud on-ramp workloads stay inside Singapore’s carrier ecosystem.
- Low-latency trading and serving
- Carrier hotels and cloud on-ramps
- Regional headquarters
Region · Riau Islands · Singapore corridor
Singapore latency. Island-scale room to grow.
Bintan sits 50km from Singapore: close enough for a sub-2ms round trip, far enough from the land, power and water limits of a dense city market.
50kmFrom Singapore, inside a half-hour economic corridor
<2msRound-trip latency over Nongsa–Changi fibre
24pairsFibre pairs on the 50km subsea route
-30%+Total cost of ownership versus Singapore
Operating model
Front office in Singapore. Compute on Bintan.
Keep latency-critical, customer-facing workloads in Singapore, and move power-hungry training and inference to a campus that can keep scaling.
Room for power-dense compute
Model pre-training, batch inference and large-scale storage use the island’s power, water and land.
- High-density liquid-cooled racks
- Captive power at about 1/3 of Singapore pricing
- Land banked for multi-gigawatt growth
Connectivity
A short, diverse route to Singapore.
Dual paths via the Batam ring and the Nongsa–Changi subsea cable keep the campus one hop from Singapore’s interconnection hubs.
- 01 / CampusBintanGalang Batang SEZ meet-me rooms
- 02 / IslandDual routeDiverse terrestrial paths to Batam
- 03 / RingBatamBatam ring for path diversity
- 04 / Subsea50kmNongsa–Changi cable, 24 fibre pairs
- 05 / LandingChangiSingapore cable landing
- 06 / MarketSingaporeCarrier hotels and cloud regions
Special Economic Zone
A national priority with a policy framework.
Galang Batang SEZ positions the campus inside Indonesia’s digital economy corridor. Final structures remain subject to approvals and investor diligence.
National strategy
A July 2026 presidential directive names Batam–Bintan a priority corridor for the digital economy and data centers.
- Sovereign AI park application
- Green-channel licensing
- Fast-track foreign investment entry
Ownership & tax
Up to 100% foreign ownership with no local shareholding requirement.
- 0% import duty on AI servers and M&E
- 0% VAT on qualifying equipment
- Multi-year corporate income tax holiday
Fast-track approvals
Streamlined construction and water-abstraction permits, with a dedicated SEZ task force.
- Shorter permitting cycle
- Coordinated stakeholder support
- First capacity targeted for end 2027
Resources inside the fence
Power and water are part of the site.
The 640MW plant is already built and feeds the campus over dedicated lines. The 30 million m³ reservoir lies 20m south of the boundary and supplies a closed cooling loop.
Neither depends on a future utility application, so the build schedule is ours to control.
- Captive generation
- 640MW, already built
- Delivered power cost
- ~$0.088/kWh, ~1/3 of Singapore
- Reservoir
- 30M m³, 20m from campus
- Annual cooling make-up
- 1.5–2.2M m³ (6–7%)
- Phase One land
- 30–40ha, serviced, clear title
Regional comparison
How Bintan compares.
Directional comparison from the project brief. Validate costs, capacity and approvals during commercial diligence.
| Factor | Bintan (this project) | Johor | Batam | Singapore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 640MW captive plant, no queue | Grid saturated; new substations 2028–2031 ($0.08–0.10/kWh) | Grid <1GW, awaiting PLN upgrades ($0.06–0.07/kWh) | Strict quota, CFA <200MW; >$0.15/kWh |
| Water | 30M m³ private reservoir, closed loop | Municipal supply tight; large projects restricted | Limited supply, new plants needed | Strict NEA water-use limits |
| Land & expansion | 30–40ha serviced, reserve to 3GW | Intense competition, vacancy <0.7% | Core parks largely taken | Extremely scarce |
| Latency to Singapore | <2ms via Nongsa–Changi | 1–3ms | <2ms | 0ms |
| Delivery | 200MW in 24 months (end 2028) | Grid and water delays (3–5 yrs) | Substation queue | Long quota tenders |
Next step
Map your load to the corridor.
Tell us your latency, power and growth requirements and we will outline the right Singapore–Bintan split.