Singapore heats up data centers with operating standards for tropical climates
These new standards can potentially yield energy savings of between 2% and 5% for every 1 degree Celsius increase in such environments. Here's what to know.
These new standards can potentially yield energy savings of between 2% and 5% for every 1 degree Celsius increase in such environments. Here's what to know.
Its fifth data centre in Singapore houses an additional 1,475 cabinets, offering 83,000 square feet of colocation space, and is touted to meet the government's focus for such facilities in the country to be resource-efficient.
Singapore's trade minister says it will be "more selective" of data centres it will allow in the country, singling out facilities that demonstrate high "resource efficiency".
AirTrunk's TOk1 can scale to a capacity of over 300MW across 13 hectares.
Researchers have found that data centers' unused batteries could be re-purposed to support the grid and assist the switch to renewable energy.
Data centre giant Equinix said its SY5 facility will be the largest IBX in Australia when fully built, with more than 9,200 cabinets expected.
Dug Technology said its Geraldton-based HPC campus will be completely powered by solar and wind. Plans to install an onsite hydrogen battery system are also being investigated.
To be built on a temporary land area spanning 40 acres, the "modular" system is expected to generate 80,000 megawatt hours of energy annually, which will be tapped to power Amazon's operations including data centres and fulfilment facilities.
Dallas-based Evoque Data Center Solutions showed why neither frigid weather nor other disasters mean you must turn your IT department's lights out.
Technology companies have set ambitious goals for themselves, but more needs to be done if they are to make good on their promises.