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The department looks to build 3 data centers at a cost of P2.5 billion every year for the next 3 years to house 300 terabytes of national data
The Department of Information and Communications Technology seeks to build government-owned data centers as part of its 2026 budget request, a move that DICT budget sponsor FPJ Panday Bayanihan Representative Brian Poe frames as a shift away from reliance on foreign cloud providers.
At the House budget deliberations on Tuesday, September 30, Poe said the government currently spends around ₱12 billion annually on cloud services, with 90% of data hosted abroad, largely in Singapore. The DICT and legislators note that this is potentially a national security risk, with sensitive information residing outside Philippine jurisdiction.
To address this, the DICT is proposing to build three government-owned “major” data centers this year at a cost of P2.5 billion.
Poe explained: “What’s being done currently is we’re trying to
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