Compute, Infrastructure & Research

AI ambition ultimately lands on compute, energy and land — a hard constraint for a land-scarce city-state. Singapore imposed a moratorium on new data centres in 2019, lifted it in December 2025, and restarted allocation on a “green data centre” standard (a first DC-CFA2 tranche of 200MW, demanding high efficiency and at least 50% green energy). On the other side is the research system: A*STAR, the National Research Foundation (NRF) and university institutes underpin basic research, while home-grown models like SEA-LION probe regional-language capability.

This hub gathers every parliamentary debate on compute, infrastructure and research, the related policies and ministerial statements — from the energy and land constraints on data centres and the national compute build-out to research funding and the science system — so you can see how Singapore lays the foundation for AI under physical limits.