The Brief

What is termed in the industry as ‘cloud wars' is very much a reality, and it is spurring a dramatic surge in demand for data centres

Miles Auvil

Vertical Market Leader for Data Centres Trane Technologies

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Sustainability also gives us the opportunity to continuously innovate

Ayotunde Coker

CEO OADC

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EDGECONNEX DEPLOYS VOLTERA, ITS EV CHARGING BUSINESS

EdgeConneX has now deployed its subsidiary company Voltera, an electric vehicle charging business, which was originally launched last year.

Voltera will provide scalable electric charging infrastructure, and its client services will include the building, powering, acquiring and operating of its sophisticated electric charging facilities.

Originally, Voltera was designed to help enhance data centre infrastructure. The idea was that the company would offer an “Autonomous Vehicle Data Offload” service, and that they would work towards ”developing data transfer stations for AV Depots”. If successful, this would enable autonomous vehicles to be charged and transmit data to the cloud, all at once.

So, in the very near future, we could see edge data centres being built together with electric vehicle charging stations.

EDITOR'S CHOICE

BY THE NUMBERS

MICROSOFT TO REDUCE DATA CENTRE

EMISSIONS IN NEW ZEALAND

Microsoft has partnered with sustainable electricity supplier Ecotricity to power its forthcoming New Zealand data centre region with 100% carbon-free energy.

AMAZON’S LATEST COMMITMENT

TO SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

In the report, AWS outlined the data centre sustainability strategies that it has implemented. For instance, in one community, up to 96% of all spent cooling water from AWS data centres is sent to local farmers to help grow crops.

WIOCC INSTALLS GOOGLE’S

EQUIANO CABLE IN SOUTH AFRICA

The cable was landed by WIOCC in Lagos, Nigeria. Google’s state-of-the-art Equiano cable will improve connectivity across the region, driving faster internet speeds and reducing internet prices.

The world’s carbon neutral data centre market has been predicted to reach a $16.53bn value by 2027, rapidly rising from its $5.02bn 2021 valuation, at a 22.19% CAGR over the next five years.

22.19%

 EDGE CENTRES Edge Centres has announced that it has secured US$5.7mn in its latest seed funding round, to help drive its edge expansion n America.

 PLIOPS Pliops has closed a US$100mn Series D funding round, led by Koch Disruptive Technologies.

 GOOGLE Google's London data centre incurred a “cooling related” outage on the UK's hottest day on record.

 THE APAC DATA

CENTRE MARKET

A new JLL report revealed a serious lack of energy consumption, with only 28% of the APAC's data centre managers having access to key energy efficiency metrics.