SpaceDC becomes the first OCP Ready facility and colo solution provider in APAC

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SpaceDC becomes the first OCP ready facility and colo solution provider in APAC

7th July 2020 – The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) announced today that Singapore-based data center provider SpaceDC Pte Ltd has achieved OCP Ready™ certification for their new data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This is the first data center in Asia to receive this OCP certification and demonstrates the growing awareness of creating highly efficient facilities designed for the new wave of open infrastructure deployments.

SpaceDC’s Jakarta facility has met guidelines created by the OCP Data Center Facility Project Team, and serves as a reference for data center operators and tenants who want to understand the fundamental facility requirements to deploy this gear into their IT space. Facilities that meet these guidelines and approved by the OCP Data Center Facilities Project receive the certification as an OCP Ready™ facility.

Along with the facility, SpaceDC Pte Ltd has achieved colo solution provider status, which is a specific designation for members who are part of the OCP reseller ecosystem. OCP colo solution providers must exhibit strong technical, service and support capabilities to enable scalable deployments of OCP infrastructure.

SpaceDC is committed to lowering the environmental impact of their data centers and they have taken great care in all areas of the data center design. From site selection to modular construction, the energy source that they’ll be using to power the facility and the recycling of waste heat, these are all aspects that will help SpaceDC achieve their mission.

“We’re thrilled to be a part of the OCP community – the same community shared by tech giants such as Google and Facebook. As the first OCP colo solution provider in Asia, this certification certainly affirms SpaceDC’s mission of being an efficient, reliable, and scalable data center platform for businesses looking to expand in the region. By being OCP certified, we have distinguished ourselves as a brand whom our customers can depend on for world-class data center solutions,” said Darren Hawkins, CEO of SpaceDC.

“SpaceDC recognizes the capacity for OCP solutions to continue growing and evolving across Asia, resulting in a need for more facilities and operators who understand the needs of enterprise companies looking to adopt more open hardware designs. I would like to congratulate SpaceDC for becoming the first OCP Ready™ facility in Asia, which is an incredible achievement,” stated Steve Helvie, Vice President of Channel Development for the Open Compute Project Foundation.

“Throughout the process for JAK2 to be certified as OCP Ready™, their team has demonstrated a deep technical knowledge and understanding of what it means to create an optimised data center facility for hosting OCP IT gear. This new colo facility is a fantastic addition to the growing portfolio of OCP Ready™ data centers and will enable SpaceDC’s OCP customers to take full advantage of the TCO benefits of deploying OCP technology,” stated Mark Dansie, a key member of the OCP Data Center Facilities Project Team and leader of the OCP Ready™ program.

SpaceDC’s OCP Ready™ facility is now listed on the OCP Marketplace here.

About the Open Compute Project Foundation

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) was initiated in 2011 with a mission to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the data center’s networking equipment, general purpose and GPU servers, storage devices and appliances, and scalable rack designs. OCP’s collaboration model is being applied beyond the data center, helping to advance the telecom industry & EDGE infrastructure.

About SpaceDC

Headquartered in Singapore, SpaceDC is passionate about creating data centers that provide our customers with the infrastructure they need to grow their business across Southeast Asia’s fast moving digital markets. With over 60 years’ experience designing, building and operating facilities around the globe, we know how to construct and manage state-of-the-art data centers.

No matter the business sector or size, you can count on SpaceDC to meet your data solution needs – today and tomorrow.

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.

Green Data Centers: Crucial Business Critical Partners for Sustainability in the Digital Age

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Green Data Centers: Crucial Business Critical Partners for Sustainability in the Digital Age

‘Data centers built with sustainability in mind are the solution to cost efficiency and competitiveness.’

In this day and age, a few quick taps on the screen of your smartphone is all it takes to hail a ride, make digital purchases, or facilitate just about any online transaction. We have data – the lifeblood of today’s booming digital economy – to thank for this.

The neverending demand of countries and industries for more data does not come without problems as demand for cloud services and data centers that host such services grows in tandem. Traditional data centers require massive amounts of energy to store, archive and compute information, contributing to high energy consumption and carbon emissions that have irreversible impacts on our environment.

In view of this, green data centers have emerged as crucial business solutions to mitigate the resulting adverse impacts on our environment. Why are they important and how do they contribute to a greener future?

Tougher regulations

The energy consumption of data centers is set to account for 3.2% of the total worldwide carbon emissions by 2025, according to a 2019 article by ComputerWorld. Concerns about the growing energy consumption by data centers have earned them a position on the radar of environmental groups and consequently tougher regulations set in place by governments across the world.

Take for example Beijing’s ban on data centers with a power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.5 or higher, or Indonesia’s Regulation No. 82 – both aimed at encouraging more efficient data centers. These are but a few examples of the mounting regulatory pressures on companies to follow a green policy. Even tech giants such as Facebook and Netflix have stated their commitment to reducing the environmental impact of their energy usage, with Facebook striving to support their facilities with 100% renewable energy in 2020. This highlights the urgent need to accelerate the pace of change in our energy systems, particularly for digital services.

What this means for businesses is that green energy practices are more important now than ever in data center management. Sustainability is an important part of this new era, and while they might be the exception rather than the rule right now, they will be commonplace in the near future as governments and corporations aim to reduce environmental impact while powering up crucial cloud services.

Keeping businesses sustainable and competitive

With the launch of more digital services driving greater demand for cloud services and data centers, electrical costs are bound to increase if nothing is done to mitigate the increase in resources needed to support the growth. These electrical costs in turn push up overall expenditure in digital services that rely on the most efficient infrastructure, inevitably passing on the cost burden to consumers. Furthermore, if the data center is built in an area that does not provide a stable solution of power from grid, there will be resiliency issues as they will not be able to ensure 24/7 business continuity.

Hence, data centers built with sustainability in mind are the solution to cost efficiency and competitiveness. Data centers with lower PUEs are more efficient and require less power from the grid, thereby translating to lower costs and in turn lower selling price to customers.

The growing trend of green data centers across the globe points to a concerted effort to tackle challenges in reducing energy consumption, which ultimately requires an industry effort. As more companies continue to pledge their commitment to implementing green energy practices, delivering digital services in a sustainable fashion could go a long way to benefit not just digital consumers, but more importantly, the environment.

If you would like to learn more about the innovations to build green data centers, download SpaceDC’s  white paper here. You can also email if you would like to find out more about how SpaceDC can help you achieve your sustainability goals.

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Green Data Center Innovations

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‘What makes SpaceDC’s data center even more energy efficient and resilient is its use of onsite gas generators as opposed to relying on the local electric grid as a power source, which is the traditional energy source for most Indonesian data centers.’

 

Organizations all over the globe are facing a common challenge: reversing the negative environmental trend of high energy consumption by their data centers. With data centers coming under stricter regulations and corporations like Microsoft stating their intention to be carbon negative by 2030, companies are re-evaluating their green methodology – from questioning their suppliers about their carbon footprint to redefining those calculations.

The green data center today is no longer just a “best effort” attempt to protect the environment but a crucial business critical endeavor as organizations and consumers of e-commerce rely on more cloud computing resources each day. Increasingly, data centers are going green by leveraging alternative energy sources, all with the common goal of optimizing energy performance and reducing environmental impact.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the innovations green data centers around the world have come up with to ensure power effectiveness:

1. Microsoft’s underwater data center, which uses submarine technology

Microsoft has developed a self-sufficient underwater data center that leverages technology from submarines to deliver lightning-quick cloud services to coastal cities.

2. Apple’s North Carolina data center relies on its own power generating facilities

Apple’s data center in North Carolina combines two 100-acre solar farms with a multiple fuel cell electricity generator using biogas from nearby landfills.

3. Facebook’s hydropower plant in northern Sweden

Taking advantage of existing hydropower, Facebook’s data center in Lulea, Sweden runs 100 percent on locally generated renewable energy. Additionally, it uses natural free cooling from the outside air to cool down the racks that carry data and perform the transactions for today’s digital economies.

4. SpaceDC’s natural gas-powered green data center campus

Strategically located within the Jakarta metropolitan area and adjacent to two major gas pipelines, Jakarta’s first green data center campus taps on Indonesia’s natural gas supply to produce electricity to power its premises, producing less carbon emissions compared to coal powered grid. It is the first data center to utilize Jakarta’s natural gas network to produce electricity.

What makes SpaceDC’s data center even more energy efficient and resilient is its use of onsite gas generators as opposed to relying on the local electric grid as a power source, which is the traditional energy source for most Indonesian data centers. The onsite gas generators setup at SpaceDC’s campus will suffer no distribution losses as it does not need to transmit the electricity over long distances. On top of that, the data center is able to recycle waste heat from the gas generators by passing it through a heat exchanger in the absorption chillers, producing more chilled water for its Cold Room Air Conditioners which then cools down the data center halls.

Arrangements like these are by no means easily replicable across the world – for sure, not every data center will benefit from the same rich source of fuel as SpaceDC’s campus in Indonesia; nor can all data centers take advantage of a cooler climate, especially in tropical Southeast Asian regions where temperatures are warm all year round. However, for markets that are able to make the most of their natural surroundings, these innovative solutions can lay the foundation for a sustainable and energy-efficient hub for cloud services, reducing the environmental impact of data centers.

To read more about green data centers, click here, or contact us if you are interested to find out more about SpaceDC’s green initiatives.

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Carolyn Harrington, COO of SpaceDC, has been recognized by Data Economy as one of the world’s top 50 most influential marketers

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We’re pleased to announce that Carolyn Harrington, COO of SpaceDC, has been recognized by Data Economy as one of the world’s top 50 most influential marketers. This acknowledgement is due to all the work Carolyn has undertaken in launching and creating a strong brand awareness across the globe for SpaceDC.

Read more: https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=97390a15-64ef-4f4e-8a52-18e52fa76ca3

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There is growing demand for local data centers in Southeast Asia: SpaceDC CEO

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There is growing demand for local data centers in Southeast Asia: SpaceDC CEO

SpaceDC’s CEO Darren Hawkins says having secured, low latency data centers helps local startups connect customers to services that are increasingly deemed essential.

Watch here: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/06/01/there-is-growing-demand-for-local-data-centers-in-sea-spacedc-ceo.html

Indonesia’s fastest growing digital economy

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Indonesia’s fastest growing digital economy

In the past 5 years alone, Indonesia has gained 102.7 million new internet users, equivalent to the entire population of Vietnam.
It’s a big reason why the country is so exciting for #datacenter providers like SpaceDC.

For more eye-opening insights on the world’s fastest growing digital economy, access the full @DataReportal Digital 2020 Indonesia report :
https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2020-indonesia

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Tech Talk – HYPERSCALING ENERGY EFFICIENCY

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Tech Talk – HYPERSCALING ENERGY EFFICIENCY

It is important to be energy efficient in a data centre. Today, most international companies have an agenda to reduce their carbon footprint. A data centre running on clean energy supports customers’ drive to reduce their carbon footprint. We speak to Darren Hawkins, CEO of SpaceDC to talk about how Hyperscale data centre design innovations can be used within the converged data centre environment and how to create an ecosystem that suits business needs off today.

Listen here : https://www.bfm.my/podcast/enterprise/tech-talk/ent-tt-hyperscaling-energy-efficiency

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Presented by: Jeff Sandhu

Why Indonesia is in dire need of reliable data infrastructures

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Why Indonesia is in dire need of reliable data infrastructures

Indonesia has one of the fastest-growing mobile user bases in the world – the archipelago is home to 260 million people and is the largest economy in Southeast Asia. Around 65 percent of the population are active Internet users, making it a rich untapped resource for e-commerce giants and global financial institutions.

While the sheer number of connected people sounds promising, it is not the case for local data infrastructures. Its data centers are unable to keep up with the demand, putting organizations at risk of downtime. This may lead to damaged brand reputations and financial losses.

Current data centers have small capacities at about 5 to 10 megawatts, which clearly isn’t sufficient for the dynamic requirements of a multinational firm. Modern demand calls for scalable, contiguous and reliable systems and there isn’t anything like that in Indonesia right now.

Read more : https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/why-indonesia-dire-need-reliable-data-infrastructures/

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Building a hyperscale data center in Indonesia

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Building a hyperscale data center in Indonesia

Digital infrastructure is very much in demand, with cloud demand jumping and data centers fast-tracked as businesses switch to remote working. But with the pandemic forcing billions to stay home, what impact is it having on data centers that are currently being constructed?

Singapore-based SpaceDC is currently building a central campus in Indonesia which will be powered by its own natural gas power generator. While Singapore has not barred residents from traveling, foreign arrivals to Indonesia have been banned until further notice. What is the construction progress like, and how is the hyperscale startup coping with the widespread disruptions to the global supply chain?

Read more here : https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/building-hyperscale-data-center-indonesia/

Asia Pacific’s top 50 leaders for data centers and cloud services.

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Asia Pacific’s top 50 leaders for data centers and cloud services

We’re proud to announce that Darren Hawkins, Founder and CEO of SpaceDC, has been recognised by Data Economy as Asia Pacific’s top 50 leaders for data centers and cloud services.

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