Gaw Capital & Sinar Primera combine global expertise with local knowledge to deliver first facility in Batam and target Southeast Asian expansion
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Gaw Capital & Sinar Primera combine global expertise with local knowledge to deliver first facility in Batam and target Southeast Asian expansion
T he Southeast Asian data centre market faces a capacity problem. Singapore, the region’ s dominant hub, closed its doors to new developments in 2021 due to power constraints, forcing hyperscalers and enterprises to find alternatives quickly.
This challenge has created opportunities for operators willing to invest in less proven locations. Asiabased Gaw Capital Partners and Jakarta’ s Sinar Primera have placed their bet on Batam, a small Indonesian island 30 minutes by ferry from Singapore, where they launched the Golden Digital Gateway facility in February 2025 as the first operational data centre in the Nongsa Digital Park.
Singapore’ s data centre market generates US $ 1.4bn in annual revenue from a population of just five million, demonstrating the revenue density that makes proximity to the city-state valuable. The moratorium, implemented to address electricity grid constraints, has redirected investment flows across Southeast Asia as customers seek alternative locations that can deliver similar connectivity and latency performance.
“ It’ s a fantastic joint venture that brings together two partners and allows the various parties to complement each other in terms of skills,” says Nicholas Toh, Managing Director – Head of Data Centre Platform, Asia( Ex-China) at Gaw Capital Partners.“ Gaw Capital has a deep history and experience in designing, building, owning and operating data centres.
“ Within Gaw Capital’ s data centre portfolio, we have assets in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tokyo, Japan, Seoul, Korea and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam with investments in Chinese operators Centrin and Jinke that serve Chinese hyperscalers.”
178 September 2025