Infrastructure reference — Philippines

The Philippine AI landscape.

Who is doing artificial intelligence research in the Philippines, where the compute actually sits, which companies are building on it, and what the state has decided. One reference, sourced and confidence-flagged.

30 labs · 40 data centers · 14 companies · 7 policy instruments · 10 programs · updated 29 July 2026

Research labs and centers

Academic, government, private

33live

Data centers operating, of 40 tracked

17 operators and developers

1.5M

Filipinos targeted for AI literacy training in 2026

DepEd Project AGAP.AI

796K

Actually trained so far — about half the target

AI Ready ASEAN

42.4%

of Filipino internet users were on ChatGPT last month — 6th worldwide

Digital 2026, Meltwater & We Are Social

The Philippines ranks sixth worldwide for ChatGPT use, at 42.4 percent of internet users against a 26.5 percent global average, while having roughly 150 megawatts of live data center capacity, 30 research labs and no AI law in force. — Adoption is world-class. The infrastructure under it is not. That gap is what this directory documents.

Sections

Six ways into the same question

Each section stands alone. Together they answer whether the Philippines can build with AI, or only buy it.

30 entries

Research labs

Every university, agency and company laboratory doing AI research — academic, government, private.

40 facilities

Data centers

Every operating, under-construction and announced facility, with capacity, operator and status. Including the three-gigawatt question nobody has answered.

14 entries

Companies

The firms building and selling AI in the Philippines, and what happened to the ones that got acquired.

7 instruments

Policy

Strategy, legislation and programs — what is in force, what is draft, and what is still only a bill.

6th in the world

How Filipinos use AI

42.4% of Filipino internet users were on ChatGPT last month, against a global average of 26.5% — and what that means for 1.68 million BPO jobs.

10 programs

AI literacy programs

Who is actually teaching AI across the country — government, companies, universities and civil society — and how many people they have really reached.

Method

How to read everything here

Every figure on this site carries a confidence flag. Confirmed means the operator or institution disclosed it, or it was directly reported by a primary source. Reported means it came from an aggregator, analyst summary or secondary listing that this directory has not independently verified.

Reported figures are not presented as fact, and should not be cited as such. Where a source disagrees with another, both are shown rather than averaged. Where something is not disclosed, it says not disclosed rather than guessing.

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