To get ahead, Singapore must play smart and tilt the playing field in its favor, not try and go toe-to-toe with other data center markets. This explains its plan last year to
double its submarine cable capacity over the next decade. In context, Singapore already has 26 cables landing on its shore when the announcement was made – more than Japan with a population that is more than 20 times larger.
With the Green DC Roadmap, Singapore hopes to harness the broader data center ecosystem to achieve never-before-seen outcomes.
“If the industry can come together, across ecosystems [and] not just the data center players, they can work with upstream and downstream equipment suppliers, chip makers; they can also work with the energy power suppliers and find solutions in this space to build efficient green data centers,” said the spokesperson.