Date: 7 February 2022, Monday
Time: 8.15AM
Media: MoneyFM
Presenters: The Breakfast Huddle with Elliot Danker, Bharati Jagdish and Ryan Huang
Interviewee: Darren Hawkins, CEO of SpaceDC
According to real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield’s 2022 Global Data Centre Market Comparison report, Singapore scored highly on key criteria such as market size, fibre connectivity and availability of cloud services. But while we are ranked second, Singapore has paused new data centre development since 2019. Darren Hawkins, CEO, SpaceDC shares why companies are building data centres in other markets despite Singapore’s high-speed internet connectivity, and the pros and cons behind Singapore’s decision to lift its moratorium on new data centre projects.