SPACE DC
already exploring projects in other cities outside Jakarta - but across emerging markets throughout SEA . The plan , Hawkins explains , is to continue driving data centre standards to higher and higher levels in the markets where Space DC operates , while continuing to keep sustainability at the forefront of everything the company does .
In order to stay ahead in the data centre industry , Stavroulakis explains that you need to think , design , and build ahead of the curve . “ It takes about three to six months to design a new facility , then you have permitting , building , equipping - progressing from the point where you start a project to the day when it goes online can take two to three years ,” he explains . When the Space DC team sits down to
DID YOU KNOW ...
THE OCP IN SEA
Originally founded as part of
Facebook , the Open Compute Project ( OCP ) has spent the past decade building a global community of technology leaders looking to bring the benefits of open-sourced design and manufacturing - which already has a firm foothold in the software space - to the data centre hardware industry .
“ JAK2 is the first OCP-ready data centre in all of SEA . Besides the facility being OCP-ready , we ' ve also achieved Colo Solution Provider Status from the OCP , which translates to our offerings having a strong technical service and support capability , which enables our customers to scale their deployments of OCP infrastructure ,” says Hawkins . “ It ' s really exciting to be a part of the OCP community . It really helps to distinguish us as a brand in terms of being part of the same community as tech giants like Google and Facebook , and it helps us position ourselves as a brand that our customers can depend on to deliver world-class solutions .”
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