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a distributed redundancy technology design . We have five different power streams within the data centre , so if one goes down , we have four other power streams able to pick up that load efficiently and successfully continue to run the data centre . That ’ s just one example of reliability .
What is driving the growing customer demand for sustainable power supply in the data centre ?
You would see it a lot more with western countries like the UK and the US , and Singapore is really driving others as well with a moratorium . You see it more from countries where there is a carbon trading programme , or there is pressure from their governments and things such as the Paris Treaty , to reduce their carbon footprints . That ’ s generally where you see it , but from an overall perspective , everyone in the world is really conscious of sustainability .
How does Space DC plan to scale in the future ? data and all of their equipment is always really secure .
What trends are you seeing in terms of how data centres are becoming more sustainable ?
We are seeing the cooling technology driving sustainability as a trend . People are also trialling or looking at different types of renewable energy , or different ways of creating their own energy onsite in a sustainable but also a safe way . In some countries , you can see that they ’ re experimenting now with hydrogen and how they ’ re going to use it – obviously you have to be careful with that as you don ’ t want it to blow up , but people are spending a lot of time , money and effort because as an industry we really are quite conscious of our carbon footprint .
How do you ensure the highest levels of reliability for your customers ?
If you look at power , for example ; when we design a data centre we make sure that we have dual diverse power feeds from different substations , so if one substation goes down then we know that the other power line isn ’ t coming off the same substation . We also have
We are looking to make announcements in the not too far distant future this year . We ’ ll be announcing data centre developments in tier I cities across the APAC region and also in some of the emerging markets as well because our key focus is to create a data centre platform across Asia that incorporates both tier I and tier II cities , so our customers can one stop shop , so to speak , to deploy their data centre assets through us . ◊
IN SOME COUNTRIES , YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY ’ RE EXPERIMENTING NOW WITH HYDROGEN AND HOW THEY ’ RE GOING TO USE IT . www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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