The recent announcement form Google that it had abandoned its plans for a datacentre in Hong Kong and would instead concentrate its Asian datacentres in Taiwan and Singapore, has not deterred SuneVision, the technology arm of Sun Hung Kai Properties, from pursuing its own datacentre project at a potential cost of about HK$4 billion.
(Image: A Google official walks past a cooling system at the company’s data centre in Taiwan. The internet giant’s abandonment of a data centre project in Hong Kong has failed to deter locally listed SuneVision from its own billion-dollar plan.)
“We are very positive on the market outlook for datacentres,” Peter Yan King-shun, the executive director and chief executive at SuneVision told the South China Morning Post. The company also has datacentres in Chai Wan, Kwun Tong, Sha Tin and Tsuen Wan.
In October, the company won the first tendered datacentre site,- Tseung Kwan O Town Lot No. 122 at Wan Po Road, Tseung Kwan O, New Territories. The company has been awarded the site on a 50-year land grant at a premium of HK$428 million,
Yan said the first phase, or at least 60% of the gross floor area, would come on stream by the end of 2018.
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