Singapore will offer incentives aimed at encouraging enterprises to upgrade their hardware fleets, as part of a Green Data Centre Roadmap announced yesterday.
The island nation is a regional datacenter hub, hosting more than 70 cloud, enterprise, and co-location bit barns that consume a collective 1.4 gigawatts. While the nation's government welcomes those facilities – the digital economy is responsible for 17 percent of Singapore's GDP – it is also mindful that datacenters consume plenty of power and water, and will likely consume more as demand for more facilities and energy-intensive applications grow.
Bit barn businesses and their customers will also be encouraged to consider the impact of software on energy efficiency."IT users can leverage green software techniques like application modernization and computational offload to reduce the computational demands of applications," the roadmap suggests – hinting at the desirability of SmartNICs and containerized applications.
It does, however, suggest that the Green Roadmap is key to Singapore's ambition to add substantial new datacenter capacity. The island nation plans to bring another 300 megawatts worth of facilities online in the near term, and wants those builds to"seed hybrid ways to unlock further capacity through green energy."
Puthucheary declared that Singapore needs to turn constraints into opportunity:"This requires growth through sustainability."