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‘We remain dedicated to exceeding our customers’ needs and delivering operational excellence in ID01’

Welcome to our first newsletter of 2021!

We trust you’ve been safe and well as we start to recover from the global pandemic that shook the world in 2021. Despite COVID-19, we are pleased to have launched our JAK2 facility in September last year. Now that we have settled into 2021, we are excited about what the rest of the year has in store for us. This will be a year of growth and opportunities for us here at SpaceDC as we focus on completing the ID01 campus.

In 2020, JAK2 was recognised as a Tier III facility operating at international standards by Uptime Institute, and has also been certified PCI DSS Compliant by the PCI Security Standards Council. This accreditation means our customers can trust that our facility has  safeguarded transactions against data theft and frauds. JAK2 was also among the top 3 finalists in DatacenterDynamic’s Construction Team of the Year award for the completion of our JAK2 build. It would not have been possible without the build and construction team lead by Nick Stavroulakis. The team was quick to adapt to the changing landscape brought on by COVID-19, which allowed our facility to be completed in less than 12 months.

Our team has shown resiliency, commitment and adaptability in amidst the global pandemic and it was a proud moment for us when the facility went live in. The operations team spearheaded by Country Manager Elisabeth Simatupang have a combined experience of 33 years in the telecommunications and data center industry, working for companies such as AWS, Bali Towerindo and Hutchinson 3. Together, they have the international experience and expertise to operate our local facility and support our customers needs. We remain dedicated to exceeding our customers’ needs and delivering operational excellence in ID01.

This year SpaceDC continues our commitment to bringing you world class data centers and we look forward to sharing our expansion plans soon. Stay tuned!

All the best,
Carolyn Harrington
COO of SpaceDC

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Data centers for a post-pandemic world

In a mere span of a few months, the COVID-19 crisis has seen a quantum leap in digitization across organizations and industries of all levels as customers, supply chains, and internal interactions make a dramatic move online. While the digital mandate is not new, the pandemic has brought it into sharp focus.

Regardless of which digital transformation stage organizations are at, they all have the need for more data, connectivity, and bandwidth as they seek to accelerate their business transformation in light of this ‘new normal’. Be it to survive or thrive, organizations can no longer ignore what business and technology experts have been emphasizing: cloud and mobile apps are drivers and data is the fuel in the new economy. There are more information, interactions, and transactions on mobile devices over the internet today than physical or face-to-face ones.

In fact, the cloud is the foundation of most digital transformation strategies in organizations across the region. Two out of five priorities in ASEAN’s most recent digital integration framework are closely related to harnessing the power of the cloud to coordinate and facilitate business interactions across Southeast Asia.

“Be it to survive or thrive, organizations can no longer ignore what business and technology experts have been emphasizing: cloud and mobile apps are drivers and data is the fuel in the new economy.”

Other key technologies being leveraged in digital transformation include AI, analytics, robotic process automation, IoT, mobile collaboration, digital twins, augmented reality and 3D printing.

Even without taking a deeper look into each of these technologies, it is quickly discernible that deploying and maintaining cloud infrastructure, ensuring connectivity and bandwidth availability, and managing the huge amount of data produced can be overwhelming but necessary.

Hence, data availability and access – and the digital technologies that create, store, manage, secure and analyze the data – have become business critical for most organizations today and into the foreseeable future as we continue on our never-ending digital transformation journey. These transformational technologies require huge provisions for data management, application uptime and real-time connectivity.

 
The importance of tomorrow’s data center

While some experts liken data to fuel, others use the analogy of currency. If data is the currency of the digital economy, then data centers are its banks. Just as governments, businesses and consumers need reliable banks for efficient and secure transactions and services for a healthy economy, they similarly require reliable centers for efficient and secure data access and management for the digital economy.

Additionally, as the business develops and matures, managing the exponentially growing data is also a challenge and may not be feasible to do in-house due to the infrastructure and backend support needed. At such, finding the right data center partner is key.

To find out more about the considerations when planning for your business’ future data center needs, download SpaceDC’s white paper. You can also contact us if you would like to find out how SpaceDC can help your organization manage data.

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Digital business transformation among organizations in Asia has been ongoing for years to survive and thrive in this changing environment. Amid the economic uncertainty and ongoing global pandemic, one would assume that businesses may have scaled down or temporarily halted investments in technology. However, according to the 2020 TechTarget/ Computer Weekly IT Priorities survey, findings showed that despite budget cuts and a slower growth in IT spending, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region remains a hotbed for digital transformation initiatives.

Moreover, Southeast Asia’s digital economy is still expected to increase to US$300 billion by 2025 from US$100 billion in 2019, according to a report by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company. The burgeoning digital economy is also set to add US$10 billion to Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 2021.

 

“Mobile streaming in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore grew by 60%, or 21.6 billion minutes a week between January to April 2020.”

 

The Covid-19 crisis has accelerated the growth of the digital economy, fueling a spike in ‘live’ streaming for entertainment, cloud-based collaboration, conferencing for business, social media messaging and video call apps for communicating. Mobile streaming in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore grew by 60%, or 21.6 billion minutes a week between January to April 2020.

In addition, byproducts of Covid-19 such as city lockdowns, quarantines, work from home stipulations and coronaphobia have taken virtual events, online shopping, food delivery services, and digital banking to another level.

With that in mind, let’s look at how different types of organizations are performing or coping with the ‘new’ normal:

Data-driven enterprises

This category of businesses will see their transformation strategies and efforts come to fruition

These organizations are ahead in the transformation journey. Also known as data-driven, digital native or smart enterprises, leaders in this category include banks and financial institutions that provide digital banking and financial services and ‘smart’ manufacturers with fully integrated automation across the supply chain. For such organizations, business operations are as usual and to improve customer and employee experience, they are enhancing their digital infrastructure, scale in the cloud and deploying more cutting-edge technologies for innovation and focus on differentiation.

Digitally transforming enterprises

Enterprises in this phase will likely scramble to deploy the innovations and technologies they’ve been exploring

These are businesses in the middle of their transformation journey, with strategies implemented to leverage digital and data technologies. Enterprises in this category include food and beverage businesses automating their central kitchens and coping with surges in online orders and making contactless deliveries, and offices across all sectors with some semblance of cloud collaboration, due to remote or hybrid working arrangements. These organizations are struggling for business continuity, accelerating the digital transformation to cope with the needs and demands of customer and employee experience to make their business relevant in a growing digital economy.

Digital newbies

Newcomers will struggle to meet the challenges of customer and employee experiences

These organizations are still figuring out the works of digital transformation. Many are small enterprises without a comprehensive strategy for transformation or traditional businesses. They tend to struggle to survive in the digital economy, looking for help to digitally transform for business continuity.

Which category does your business fall into?

If you would like to know more about scaling your business for the new economy, download SpaceDC’s white paper. You can also contact us if you would like to find out how SpaceDC can help your organization manage data.

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Rolls-Royce supplies power solutions for SpaceDC’s first Indonesian green focused data center facility

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Rolls-Royce supplies power solutions for SpaceDC’s first Indonesian green focused data center facility

  • Rolls-Royce delivered 3 MTU gas and diesel systems for SpaceDC data centre in Jakarta
  • MTU gensets are specifically designed for efficiency and hot and humid conditions
  • Common goal: Lowering the environmental impact of data centers

SpaceDC officially launched its new ID01 25.45MW data centre campus with Rolls-Royce technology on 4 November 2020. It is the first green focused data centre in Indonesia. With innovative design and infrastructure SpaceDC enables a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.3, which is changing the industry’s approach to carbon footprint and ensures uptime for the users. Three MTU gas and diesel systems from Rolls-Royce with the latest exhaust aftertreatment technology provide efficient and clean base load and emergency power as well as cooling.

“There is growing demand for local data centres in Southeast Asia, even more since the Covid-19 crisis”, says Darren Hawkins, CEO of SpaceDC. “With the trend of decarbonization new concepts of power supply for data centres are at the forefront.” SpaceDC is a data centre provider who aims to lower the environmental impact of data centres. “This company philosophy fits very well with Rolls-Royce’s goal of continuously enhancing the eco-friendliness of our drive and energy systems and bringing them closer to CO2 neutrality,” explains Andreas Görtz, Vice President Power Generation at Rolls-Royce Power Systems.

For the JAK2 facility in Jakarta, Rolls-Royce supplied three containerized gas and diesel systems.

The diesel systems, which secure the power supply of the data centre, comprise two MTU 20V4000 DS3300 gensets in a 40 ft container with SCR systems to reduce emissions.

“Reliable backup power is the lifeblood for any data centre – and it is absolutely fundamental in creating a world class facility,” said Darren Hawkins. “In designing our JAK2 data centre, we selected Rolls-Royce, with its MTU products, as our partner because they provide the best in market technology and power efficiency for this data centre, which is aligned with our vision of meeting international standards as part of the overall value proposition to our customers in the region and beyond.”

A 20-cylinder MTU Series 4000L64 FNER gas genset in a 40ft container is installed as CHP (Combined Heat and Power) application with a total efficiency of above 90%. The system will provide baseload electricity and cooling via an absorption chiller utilising the exhaust gas heat to provide cooling. The MTU gas systems offer best in class power density and have been designed specifically to withstand hot and humid conditions. This is especially crucial for the facility in Jakarta where the climate is tropical almost year-round. The MTU power solutions offer an extended Time Between Overhaul (TBO) of 84,000 hours, requiring less maintenance and overhaul intervals for maximum productivity and reliability.

“Deploying generators in a tropical environment like Indonesia comes with a unique set of challenges, especially for a data centre environment where uptime is absolutely critical. We’re proud that our Series 4000 generator sets will help SpaceDC meet the special demands of the location and ensure the highest levels of reliability for their customers,” said Andreas Görtz.

“Working with SpaceDC, we’ve seen great synergy in developing complete power generation solutions that are market-leading in terms of efficiency and reliability. And we are proud that they chose us as a partner to support them with our sustainability service and backup power”, said Waluyanto Sukajat, Acting Managing Director, PT. MTU Indonesia

About SpaceDC

SpaceDC is creating state-of-the-art data centres to help businesses grow in Southeast Asia’s fast-moving digital markets. Headquartered in Singapore, SpaceDC is applying over 60 years of combined leadership experience to create a network of top-of-the-line data centre campuses in Southeast Asia’s key regional cities. Our campuses are strategically located to tap the cities’ natural resources and maximize accessibility. They feature multiple layers of security, dark fiber connectivity and very low PUEs to ensure your business critical data is always secure and accessible. We offer a collaborative partnership that enables you to hyperscale on a long-term lease.

About Rolls-Royce Holdings plc

1. Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver clean, safe and competitive solutions to meet our planet’s vital power needs.

2. Rolls-Royce Power Systems is headquartered in Friedrichshafen in southern Germany and employs around 10,000 people. The product portfolio includes MTU-brand high-speed engines and propulsion systems for ships, power generation, heavy land, rail and defence vehicles and for the oil and gas industry as well as diesel and gas systems and battery containers for mission critical, standby and continuous power, combined generation of heat and power, and microgrids. Medium-speed engines from Bergen power ships and power generation applications.

3. Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 150 countries, comprising more than 400 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces, 70 navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers.

4. Annual underlying revenue was £15.45 billion in 2019, around half of which came from the provision of aftermarket services.

5. In 2019, Rolls-Royce invested £1.46 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 29 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research.

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The 8 layers of security your data center must have

Digital transformation has resulted in cloud service providers demanding more storage facilities to keep up with the growing volume of big data generated every year. Because a data center houses information, applications and services that businesses use every day, organizations must ensure they are using appropriate security measures to protect the facility.

In our previous blog, we highlighted the consequences of an inadequate data center security. But what are the security standards your facility should have to meet and maintain compliance? Here, we outline how SpaceDC’s 8 layers of security sets the benchmark for best practices in safeguarding your data.

 

“The right data center for you today must also be the right data center for you tomorrow.”

1. Perimeter security

On the outer perimeter of the data center is the multi-faceted wall, the first line of defence to withstand every possible type of attack and natural disaster. In 2017, five suspects were arrested after breaking into a data center in Johannesburg and stealing more than USD $130,000 worth of copper cables. Physical barriers are important as they serve to dishearten potential intruders. To ensure security at a maximum level, the perimeter wall needs to be coupled with additional features that we have highlighted below.

2. Perimeter guardhouse

The second layer is the guardhouse at the fence. All visitors should be required to register at least 48 hours before their visit and answer a series of security questions from the Access Request Application System regarding their background, purpose of visit and list of accompanying people. They should only be allowed access to the facility in limited zone areas after prior screening and approval.

3. Building entry

Upon entry, any items that visitors carry must be declared through an industrial x-ray and metal detector to ensure no unauthorized items are brought into the site.

4. Personal access to secure zone

Visitors to the data center should then be given access passes to specify which areas they are allowed to enter, and which areas are prohibited. Then, the visitor should pass through a small air locked room – the human trap – where they get weighed, and any large discrepancies in the visitors’ weight at the site of arrival and departure will be highlighted to security to uncover the root cause. This ensures that no item gets left behind that could potentially cripple the security of the facility.

5. Lift access control

For high rise data center buildings, visitors can move from the airlock through to the liftaccess control and should only be permitted to use their designated lifts. Visitors will only be given access to certain floors to prevent unauthorised personnel. Every person with access to the facility has the potential to undermine any of the security systems, hence limiting the movement of visitors around the facility is crucial to keeping the integrity of the data center.

6. Data hall secure corridor

Smart sensors and CCTV should be installed along the aisle to prohibit tailgating. A no tailgating policy is essential to enable the Network Operations Centre (NOC) to monitor every individual entering the data hall and beyond. This is crucial, as it ensures the accuracy of all visitor data, which would be required in the event of a security breach at the facility.

7. Data center vault

Vaults should be under comprehensive CCTV surveillance for any suspicious activity, and to maintain visual contact of every visitor at all times, as this is where the racks are housed. At any point in time, a data center must know exactly who is in the vault, where they are and what they are doing. If there are more people than there should be, an alert that should go off.

8. Rack level access

Only a very specific, pre-assessed, pre-approved selection of people will be given a biometric key to obtain access to the rack. As biometric access cannot be duplicated or physically stolen, it ensures the safety of the data housed on the racks. On top of this, many customers can opt to have their own rack surveillance based on their specific needs.

Summary

A good operations team needs to consider the worst case scenario and apply all possible security measures to ensure an impregnable facility. Following the industry standard is not enough, facilities should always be updated on new technology advancements or developments in the threat landscape and proactively anticipate them.

SpaceDC understands the importance of maintaining data security and implements the latest safety standards to keep your information intact. We set the benchmark for best practices in security innovations to create a formidable fortress against break ins and unlawful entry in the interests of your businesses.

If you would like to find out how SpaceDC ensures maximum security for our data center, read our whitepaper or contact us today.

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As Southeast Asia continues to be a high growth market, emerging enterprises need data centers optimized for the new wave of open infrastructure. Darren Hawkins shares his insights on the Indonesian data center market and the upcoming launch of our new OCP Ready™ facility in Jakarta in this week’s Solution Provider Spotlight interview.

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Consequences of an inadequate data center security

As we step into the era of technology, data has become businesses’ greatest asset. In our previous blog, Data center security: Threats against operability, we explored four areas companies must consider when selecting a facility to keep their information safe. But what happens if your data center is not adequately equipped? Here, we highlight the consequences a lack of security infrastructure can have on organizations.

Disruption to operations

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy took out at least eight data centers in Manhattan, New York. InterNAP’s data center along Broad Street was submerged by floodwater, causing connectivity and server issues. Customers of InterNAP were even urged to shut down servers immediately. Datagram was among the worst hit by the hurricane. The NYC-based Hosting and Internet Services Provider suffered flooding in the basement of their facility, taking out servers hosting BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, Gawker and other sites. The lack of mitigation infrastructure to combat such natural disasters at these data centers left organizations like the United Nations and Bloomberg News unable to function.

“If a data center doesn’t prescribe to Murphy’s Law – that is operating under the assumption that anything can go wrong will go wrong- you shouldn’t be entrusting them with the security of your data.”

An Infrascale survey conducted in May 2020 on small and medium businesses (SMBs) revealed more than a third (37%) of SMBs lost customers to downtime, highlighting the importance for a business to have a reliable and secure infrastructure preventing such situations from arising. Downtime affects any company that depends on online sales, as this means customers are unable to purchase products and services, which ultimately leads to loss in revenue.

Monetary loss

Cognizant, one of the largest providers of server hosting and IT services in the US, was a victim of a ransomware incident which negatively impacted its Q2 revenue in April 2020. Access to a series of services was cut and their servers were eventually inaccessible. Karen McLoughlin, Cognizant Chief Financial Officer said they expect this downtime to be within a range of USD $50-70 million for the quarter. In March last year, aluminium producer Norsk Hydro, also reported a ransomware incident, which cost total revenue losses of more than USD $40 million – a sum later adjusted to $70 million.

Marriott has also disclosed yet another security breach in April 2020 that exposed personal information such as names, birthdates, phone numbers and loyalty account numbers. This comes on the heels of their 2018 data breach, where a security investigation concluded that there was “unauthorized access” to a database holding hotel guest records. In 2019, UK authorities fined Marriott more than £99 million for the incident in 2018.

IBM’s study of over 500 data breach victims — conducted by the Ponemon Institute — shows that most organizations incur only about two-thirds (67%) of their data breach costs in the first 12 months. They spend 22% in the second year and the remaining 11% more than two years after the incident as fines and legal fees accumulate in the years following a breach, and not in the immediate aftermath of one.

More attention is needed for data center security infrastructure, as there is no room for complacency in today’s evolving cybersecurity landscape when the consequences of a security breach could result in significant losses.

Reputational damage

The consequences of a data breach goes beyond potential fines. The reputational damage is just as devastating.

Following major revelations on Twitter in October 2019, VPN provider NordVPN confirmed it was hit by a security breach in March 2018. NordVPN admitted that it learned of the attack in April 2019, more than a year after it happened, but the company only went public some six months later in October 2019, after details were exposed on Twitter. NordVPN claims the breach was due to a fault by the data center that let an undisclosed IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) account to access the server.

Research has shown that up to a third of customers in retail, finance and healthcare will stop doing business with organisations that have been breached. Presently, with the advent of technology, information dissemination is almost instant, and organisations can become a global news story within a matter of hours of a breach being disclosed. Striving to restore the trust and confidence between stakeholders after a data breach is one of the most difficult task a company must overcome. Reputational damage is long-lasting and can have an impact on an organisation’s ability to attract new customers, future investment and new employees to the company.

An ICO survey conducted in 2020 found people are increasingly likely to choose service providers based on how their business critical data is protected, and some 73% of respondents mentioned they would hold companies responsible for data breaches involving their personal information. This shows the importance that we place on the security of our data. In other words, data centers must incorporate security measures from the ground up to protect the data of their customers.

SpaceDC understands the importance of security and we ensure our data centers are built to international standards. With 8 different layers of physical access controls at our facility and extensive protocols meeting TVRA standards, it is SpaceDC‘s top priority to safeguard your data all the way from design to mitigating threats.

Discover how SpaceDC maximizes security in our whitepaper or contact us for more information.

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Southeast Asia is the fastest growing region for colocation data centers, with an expected compounded annual growth rate of 13 per cent from 2019 to 2024, according to a 2019 Cushman & Wakefield report.

The rising number of data centers means more business critical information is vulnerable to threats. Facilities with inadequate security features are at risk to potential data breaches. In May 2020, Tokopedia, one of Indonesia’s biggest e-commerce platforms admitted that some data related to names, e-mails and telephone numbers were accessed by hackers. This breach of user information drew criticism from the public, as Tokopedia was an established and trusted technology company.

“Like banks, the sheer volume of valuable assets data centers contain make them a flashing beacon for attack.”

Here are key areas you need to consider and audit when selecting a facility to ensure your data remains secure:

Physical threats

Physical attacks or terror attacks to undermine data centers are far more common in certain geographical regions, particularly in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. These violent intrusions can cause damage resulting in businesses downtime and loss of trust from stakeholders.

Natural disasters are one of the top concerns of data centers around the world. With 44% of the world’s natural disasters coming from Asia, ResearchGate shared that this region is most vulnerable to unforeseen circumstances such as storms and floods. Thus, it is important that data centers in Asia develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans. For example, in 2009, Vodafone’s facility in Istanbul, Turkey was flooded during a torrential downpour. CCTV footage caught the watery onslaught filling up the server room, but Vodafone had implemented a disaster recovery plan, which allowed them to restore most of the data that was affected.

Such happenings are not something companies can afford to simply ignore and data centers should be proactive in their planning for physical threats.

Economic Corruption

Certain regions around the world are faced with higher levels of economic corruptions, making theft and sale of sensitive digital data a reality. The consequences of a data breach could be damaging to both the business and company reputation.

When selecting a facility, ensure it has multiple layers of security that would effectively protect your data. For example, visitors must ask for access at least 1 day prior to arriving at the data center, and will be escorted throughout their time there. Strict security procedures mean there is no opportunity for an individual to access the data in your racks without permission.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are committed by malicious third parties to damage significant infrastructure as an attempt to cause disturbance to business activities. Unlike theft of data, DDoS attacks steal time and operability, causing outages to the company’s data. This is extremely detrimental to many companies that have a 99.99% uptime guarantee.

In September 2020, a series of DDoS attacks plagued online learning in Miami-Dade County public schools by overloading the district’s data center and disabling the system, preventing students and teachers from logging in. With workarounds, the schools have been able to continue with online classes, but a permanent solution has yet to be found.

Without a proper security infrastructure to deal with DDoS attacks, many businesses that rely on the data center would experience difficulties proceeding with daily businesses.

Neglect of security

As the number of data users rapidly grows in the region, solution providers will need to accommodate at the same pace. This results in risk of speed being prioritized over security, leading to weaker infrastructure, less comprehensively planned systems and increased human error.

SpaceDC understands the seriousness of these threats when it comes to building our data center and implements the very latest in terms of physical security standards. Companies can trust our data centers, as we have the best possible IT infrastructure and top tier facilities that can withstand these threats and protect the interests of your businesses.

If you would like to find out how SpaceDC ensures maximum security for our data center, read our whitepaper or contact us today.

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‘We’ve made tremendous progress finalizing the build of our JAK2 facility launching this September.’


Welcome to our first newsletter!

We trust you’ve been safe and well as lockdown measures begin to lift across the world. During COVID-19, SpaceDC has deployed drone and remote working technology to provide our customers and staff the needed information and intelligence to complete tasks. We are also pleased to have tremendous progress finalizing the revitalization of our JAK2 facility that will launch this September.

We are thrilled to receive confirmation from the Open Compute Foundation Project (OCP) community as Asia’s first OCP colo solution provider. With this OCP certification, customers can trust our ability to provide reliable, scalable and efficient data center solutions.

In the last 12 months, our team has grown 400% to meet data center development activity. This directly relates to the work we do for our customers, providing them space to grow. As part of the team’s growth, it is a great pleasure to introduce Elisabeth Simatupang as our Indonesian country manager. Elisabeth spearheads our data center operations in Indonesia with over 11 years of experience managing data centers around the world, notably AWS and Bali Towerindo. Elisabeth and our Jakarta office have worked tirelessly to build the JAK2 operations and maintenance team who have the international experience and expertise to operate local facilities.

Throughout the year, SpaceDC has received numerous awards and recognition within the data center industry. The most recent award is Carolyn Harrington, COO of SpaceDC, who was recognized as one of the world’s most influential marketeers by Data Economy.

2020 has been a challenging time for businesses, we would like to thank our staff and their partners who have made it possible for us to thrive amid difficult circumstances. We have progressed greatly since 2017 when we first viewed over 50 sites before ultimately selecting the location we would build our ID01 campus. The fiber rich and strategic location between the airport and city will give customers access to a resilient and robust campus network like no other. It will be a proud moment for the team when our facility goes live and we welcome our first customers, providing them the space to grow.

Looking to the future, watch out as we break ground for our next 24MW facility, JAK1, located on the ID01 campus in October. This will be quickly followed by announcements of our expansion plans across Asia. Stay tuned!

All the best,
Darren Hawkins
CEO of SpaceDC

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