(SINGAPORE): Facebook is joining the likes of other technology giants to build data centres in Singapore.

The social media giant is building a $1.4 billion 11-storey-high data centre here, its first in Asia and 15th in the world.

Google has invested at least US$850 million ($1.16 billion) to build two data centres in Singapore. Alibaba also has data centres here, which it started building in 2015.

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