SINGAPORE: The completion of Google’s fourth data centre in Singapore brings its total investment in the country to US$5 billion .
Singapore is a strategic hub for Google’s data centre network. It is one of 11 countries where the company operates such facilities. Singapore’s first two data centres were launched in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Dr Janil, who attended the event, emphasised, “With our energy and carbon constraints, this growth of capacity can only be realised if we can make the data centres more sustainable.”
These data centres currently account for a significant portion of the country’s emissions, contributing to 82% of the information and communications sector’s emissions and 7% of its total electricity consumption.“The average temperature in our data centres is about 27 deg C. It can in fact go higher, but we keep it at that level for the comfort of the humans working in there,” said Mr Ken Siah, the Asia-Pacific head of public affairs for Google data centres.