Sustainable Metal Cloud's data centre, where computers are cooled via liquid immersion, at ST Telemedia Global Data Centres' facility in Loyang.
Announcing the details of Singapore’s new Green Data Centre Roadmap launched on May 30, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said that greening data centres is crucial in a digital and carbon-constrained world. Thus, balancing Singapore’s digital economy, which contributes to almost a fifth of its gross domestic product, with its net zero target by 2050 is a “critical issue”, said DPM Heng at the Asia Tech x Singapore conference on May 30 at the Capella Singapore hotel.
Green operators can tap schemes offered by the Economic Development Board and other agencies that could defray operating costs by around 30 per cent or more, in some cases. The green standards outlined in the roadmap include ways to improve energy efficiency by upgrading equipment and reducing energy used for air-conditioning by safely raising the operating temperature to 26 deg C.
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres is among the early adopters of immersion cooling at scale here. The method is said to reduce the energy footprint of producing AI cloud services by up to 50 per cent compared to traditional cloud services today.