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SingTel to build 150K sq ft 'green' data centre

Tony Chan | April 24, 2008 | 0 Comments

Singapore Telecom announced that it will build a new 150,000 sq ft data centre facility at the city’s Kim Chuan industrial area. The new facility, dubbed Kim Chuan Telecommunications Centre 2 (KCTC-2) will be SingTel’s fifth data centre in its home market and pushes the operator’s total data centre volume to more than half a million square feet.

KCTC-2, expected to be completed by early 2010, will be built to Tier-4 specifications, the industry’s most stringent data centre standard and feature high capacity power and cooling systems with full redundancy, advanced fire suppression systems and cabling infrastructure designed with diversity to ensure maximum uptime, as well as extra floor loading to support high density equipment deployments.

“Increasingly, customers are looking for end-to-end managed solutions that offer convenience and peace of mind. We have brought these services together under one roof at KCTC-2 to help our customers reduce costs, as well as improve their productivity and competitiveness with maximum security and availability,” said Bill Chang, SingTel’s executive vice president for Business.

SingTel identified the Singapore government’s digital society vision, iN2015, and the growth of high performance computing, such as blade servers, as the key demand side drivers for next generation data centres and anticipates a strong demand for KCTC-2’s hosting facilities due to its strategic location, state-of-the-art infrastructure and robust ICT support capabilities.

GREEN ANGLE
The new KCTC-2 will be constructed according to the recently revised requirements of the Singapore Building and Construction Authority’s (BCA) Green Mark scheme, a green building rating system that evaluates buildings based on criteria such as energy and water efficiency, as well as environmental protection and innovation.

Under the Green Mark assessment system, points are awarded for incorporating environment-friendly features which are better than normal practice, according to guidelines by the BCA. “The assessment identifies designs where specific targets are met. Meeting one or more indicates that the building is likely to be more environmental friendly than buildings where the issues have not been addressed. The total number of points obtained provides an indication of the environmental friendliness of the building design.”

Earlier this month, APC, a vendor of integrated power and cooling systems, launched its first Energy Efficient Solutions Centre in South East Asia at a new 25,000 sq ft premise at Techpoint, Ang Mo Kio. APC’s facility enables business visitors and partners to have a practical “hands-on” experience and to easily visualize “what-if” design scenarios, taking into consideration factors such as power consumption, costs, expected hardware usage and current regulations, before committing to any IT infrastructure investment in their own companies

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