Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association pushes for stronger sustainability frameworks
The APDCA participants include leading international operators, such as AirTrunk, Equinix, Digital Realty, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, and Princeton Digital Group.
Among the examples presented is Singapore’s BCA-IMDA Green Mark for Data Centres (GMDC)– a certification scheme jointly established by the Infocomm Media Growth Authority (IMDA) and the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) to identify information facilities with solid sustainability performance and energy-efficient methods.
Driven by cloud adoption, digital services and artificial intelligence (AI), local demand for information centres is projected to increase close to 20% yearly through 2028. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that Southeast Asia’s data centre electricity use will almost double by 2030 compared to 2024– a pattern mirrored across the wider APAC area.
The white paper highlights best practices to enhance power performance throughout the information centre lifecycle– from spot choice, design and construction to operations and tracking. It additionally recommends plan measures to speed up accessibility to clean and renewable energy with stronger grid infrastructure and Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).
” Balancing energy sustainability with the increasing request for digital facilities is among APAC’s defining challenges,” claims Jeremy Deutsch, chair of APDCA. “With the right policy frameworks, Asia-Pacific governments can ensure that electronic transformation breakthroughs hand in hand with net-zero ambitions.”
The Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association (APDCA) has actually released a brand-new white paper calling for tougher policy and market cooperation to improve energy sustainability around data centres in the area.
Labelled Data Centres and Energy Sustainability: A Regional Perspective on Best Practices and Policy Frameworks, the paper was released on Oct 27 and lays out approaches to minimize the environmental impact of data facilities while satisfying the climbing requirement for digital facilities in Asia-Pacific (APAC).
Property developers are urged to work together very closely with regulators and market partners to establish constant energy efficiency standards across the APAC markets.
