August 23, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — The 357-hectare Bataan Nuclear Energy Plant (BNPP) advanced is being eyed as the placement for the nation’s greatest built-in digital hub, housing an information heart and tech faculties for 4,000 college students.
A proposed grasp improvement plan for the BNPP seeks to transform the power right into a mixed-use property that includes a 70-megawatt information heart that may be inbuilt three phases.
The plan, drawn by HB Mayuga and Associates and shared with The STAR, confirmed that the primary section of the mission will retrofit BNPP’s reactor silo right into a 20-MW information heart.
The second and third phases contain the development of one other 50-MW information heart powered by renewable vitality. The info facilities within the hub will depend on photo voltaic panels and wind generators constructed on the location.
The mission goals to place up a mixture of photo voltaic and wind amenities that might generate as a lot as 325 MW. Likewise, it should home a 1,030-MW battery vitality storage system and an non-obligatory pumped storage hydroelectric facility.
To assist expertise necessities, the mission eyes to draw the biggest data know-how universities within the Philippines, promising them an area sufficient for 4,000 college students.
Aside from this, there shall be industrial areas, residential items and retail buildings to scale up the financial viability of what would turn into the nation’s largest built-in IT hub.
The Philippines presently has an information heart capability of 125 MW, one of many lowest in Asia and the Pacific, and that is dragging the nation’s prospects to turn into a digital powerhouse.
Division of Info and Communications Know-how Secretary Henry Aguda desires to pitch the mission to President Marcos, believing it will be a game-changing initiative for his digital push.
Aguda stated the mission may even be completed inside the Marcos administration whether it is authorized this 12 months.
In response to Aguda, Bataan is the right website for an built-in IT hub given its proximity to Poro Level in La Union, the place a cable touchdown station is constructed. Paired with an information heart, the station can obtain and transmit data at lightning speeds, bettering connectivity high quality within the nation.
