Digital Halo MNL1 is a data center project in Cainta, Philippines, operated by Digital Halo. It is operational. It is planned for 70 MW of IT load. The operator reports 6.5 MW running.
Latest change on record: entered the record as operational in May 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 21 October 2026.
This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.
Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.
How Philippines approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Philippines.
Greater Manila holds 9 active projects with 517 MW of planned IT load between them, and Digital Halo MNL1 ranks 4th by planned capacity. Of those, 6 are operational, 1 is at the land and permitting stage, 1 is announced only and 1 is on hold. Published colocation vacancy in Greater Manila was 43.6% as of June 2026, on 90 MW of operational colocation capacity as counted by Cushman & Wakefield. Vacancy excludes hyperscaler self-build.
Digital Halo has 1 project elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including Digital Halo JHB1. It sits on the Digital Halo MNL campus (Cainta). Named funding comes from Partners Group and Arch Capital on the equity side and Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) as debt. No user of the capacity is on the public record as of 2026-10-01, after a check of operator, landlord, contractor, regulator and lender documents. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.
The build is phased. MNL1 at 6.5 MW is operational with a 2025 target; MNL2 / MNL3 is announced. The stage was recorded as operational in May 2025. The money on record is PHP 2.79bn (about US$47m) as of January 2026, debt raised, which ArusGrid keeps out of capital totals.
Grid power for a large industrial user in the Philippines costs about US$0.12 per kWh as of July 2026, the country figure ArusGrid applies where a site has no published rate. The US export control position for advanced AI chips in the Philippines, as of 27 September 2026, is recorded as “No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced”. ArusGrid holds 9 public sources for this project, the latest dated 23 January 2026, and last checked the record on 21 October 2026.
Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Operator markets MNL1 as the Philippines' first 'AI- and hyperscale-ready' data center, on 100% renewable (geothermal + wind) supply, on a 3.75-ha campus scaling to 70MW. This is an operator marketing claim, not a dated cooling/GPU spec, hence 'likely', not 'confirmed'.
This country carries no US destination-based licence requirement for advanced AI chips as the rules are enforced today. Access is a commercial matter between the project and its vendors. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.
No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced · No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced (2026-09-27) source
Checked on 2026-10-01. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.
This is the size of a loan. ArusGrid excludes it from capital spending totals.
Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.
No published price band exists for Philippines, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.
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