“A power-hungry industry and a society trying to [ decouple ] from fossil fuels don ' t go hand-in-hand ”
THE BRIEF
“A power-hungry industry and a society trying to [ decouple ] from fossil fuels don ' t go hand-in-hand ”
SEA : Scrapping to be the next Singapore
LARS
SCHEDIN Senior Advisor , EcoDataCenter
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“Perfectly usable equipment is routinely discarded … with almost 20 % of it going straight to landfill or incineration ”
ANDREW GOMARSALL MBE Executive Chairman , N2S
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“ South Korea is currently at the nascent stage of developing its public cloud sector ”
JAY WEON KHYM Country Manager , Korea , Digital Realty
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Singapore ’ s data centre industry was at capacity before the moratorium , and a post-freeze market isn ’ t going to get back to prefreeze levels . Maybe ever .
Sounds like bad news for Singapore .
But it ’ s great news for the Philippines , Malaysia , and Indonesia - for the whole rest of Southeast Asia , actually .
All that demand has to go somewhere , I guess .
Exactly . And SEA countries are ready to assure the data centre industry that they aren ’ t going to be as
“ precious ” about little stuff like climate change if it means hyperscale business .
The Philippines have less than 10 % the capacity of Singapore , but the newly “ selective ” approach by the Singaporean government “ has pushed the interest to other countries in Southeast Asia that can absorb that demand such as Malaysia , Thailand , and now the Philippines ,” said Santos-Knight Frank exec Monica Gonzalez earlier this year .
Sounds like the region ’ s about to change .
And fast .
14 April 2022