European cloud services provider, OVHcloud, has announced the launch of a data centre facility in Singapore.
This will be the company’s second in the region, under its Asia Pacific (APAC) expansion plans, with the first data centre launched in Mumbai, India.
While making the announcement, the company did not disclose the site location in Singapore as well as the size of the proposed data centre.
It is not clear, whether, given the restriction in place in Singapore concerning new builds, the company will build a greenfield facility or lease space in an existing data centre.
Among various restrictions, Singapore has strict criteria for new data centres which must need to provide a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.3 or better, to reduce carbon emissions.
PUE helps assess how effectively a data centre or facility uses energy for computing and related operations.
OVHcloud has stated earlier that it plans to establish 15 new data centre site in the Asia Pacific region by 2024 out of which it has already set up the Mumbai facility and has firm plans to set up an additional site in Sydney next year.
It aims to develop a network of data centres to enhance access to "reliable and secure cloud solutions catering to the digital demands of customers".
OVHcloud’s chief executive officer, Michel Paulin, said there is a need for sustainable data centres to lower the carbon footprint of digitalisation and support the computing needs of emerging technologies, like Generative AI, for Singapore.
With experience in water cooling technology for over 20 years, the firm can meet customers’ needs for sustainable cloud solutions as their digital needs evolve, Paulin added.
According to OVHcloud, the Singapore data centre will feature an integrated water-cooling system built into a vertical rack designed to facilitate cooling at the server level, eliminating the need for air conditioning in server rooms, with benefits in costs and environmental impact.
The design will allow precise and efficient cooling that requires a single glass of water to cool an OVHcloud server over 10 hours as compared to other servers that need seven times more water, it added.
