President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is looking forward to the proposed establishment of a largest data center in the country by Dubai-based tech firm DAMAC Digital.<\/p>\n
The President met with Hussain Sajwani, founder and chairman of DAMAC Digital, and other officials in Abu Dhabi to tackle proposed investments in the Philippines.<\/p>\n
In a press statement from the Palace, the President pitched the country as a rising hub for data centers, cloud services, and AI-powered technology, saying the proposed Laguna facility could put the Philippines firmly on the regional tech map.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn particular, the President expressed excitement about the proposal to establish the biggest data center in the country as it will position the Philippines as a data center hub in the region,\u201d the Palace press statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe assured that DAMAC Digital will be given high priority as they are investing in a sector that the Philippines wants to develop,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
The business meeting is part of the President\u2019s two-day working visit to Abu Dhabi, where he joined the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2026 Summit and witnessed the signing of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.<\/p>\n
DAMAC Digital is the digital infrastructure arm of Dubai-based DAMAC Group. Formerly known as EDGNEX Data Centres, the company rebranded in mid-2025 as it ramped up its global expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is looking forward to the proposed establishment of a largest data center in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-243537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}