{"id":16421,"date":"2025-12-03T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16421"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:59:38","slug":"singapore-firms-power-batams-tech-and-manufacturing-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16421","title":{"rendered":"Singapore firms power Batam\u2019s tech and manufacturing boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The park, launched in 2018, now hosts a mix of Indonesian firms and international players, including Singapore outfits and global tech giants such as Apple and Infineon.<\/p>\n<p>Many use Batam as a base to offshore lower-cost work and train new talent amid the global artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n<p>Central to Nongsa\u2019s development is its growing cluster of data centres, with 13 already in operation and more on the way.<\/p>\n<p>These facilities are critical to the AI industry, providing the massive computing power needed to train and run AI systems.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wiluan, who is also the CEO of Nongsa Digital Park, noted that data centres come with power, water and connectivity infrastructure that companies can tap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, being in that ecosystem and having that accessibility to power (and) water consistently, gives confidence to businesses to know that they&#8217;re probably going to experience less power outages, they&#8217;re going to have more connectivity, and they&#8217;re in a safe environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/batam-technology-manufacturing-boom-singapore-firms-5529936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The park, launched in 2018, now hosts a mix of Indonesian firms and international players, including Singapore outfits and global tech giants such as Apple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--xKYqpFkI--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/12\/03\/batam_sez_1.png?itok=xHqj7Bhr","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11136,6233,35,6234,1214,22,1243],"class_list":["post-16421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-batams","tag-boom","tag-firms","tag-manufacturing","tag-power","tag-singapore","tag-tech","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}