Data Centre

For most of the past decade, the question that decided a data centre project in Southeast Asia was where to put it. Increasingly, the harder question is whether the grid can feed it. Land can usually be found; megawatts cannot always be conjured on the same timeline. Nowhere is this sharper than in Singapore, where a small, dense market has run into the physical limits of its power system. The result is a region learning to treat electricity as its scarcest design input and t

A modern data centre is too complex and too critical to be understood only once it has been built. Yet for years that is close to how the industry operated, committing to cooling layouts and power topologies on the strength of spreadsheets and static drawings, then hoping the physical building behaved as the paperwork promised. Digital twins have changed that. By creating a living virtual replica of a facility, engineers can now test, question and refine a design long before

Every megawatt that flows into a data centre but never reaches a server is a cost with no return. As Singapore’s grid tightens and its sustainability rules sharpen, that gap between the power drawn and the power put to work has become one of the clearest measures of how well a facility is run. Power Usage Effectiveness, better known as PUE, captures precisely that ratio. It has moved from a back-office statistic to a board-level concern, and operators across the region are no

Singapore wants more data centres and lower emissions at the same time, and it has decided the way to reconcile those goals is efficiency. For operators, that makes sustainability less a matter of corporate image and more a condition of being allowed to grow at all. The message from regulators has been consistent. Capacity will expand, but it will go to the facilities that can prove they use energy and water carefully. That reframes green design as a commercial strategy, and

Many organisations approach data centre projects with a clear sense of what they want to build, but a less clear understanding of how to get there. The gap between a business requirement and a fully operational facility is wider than most teams anticipate, and bridging it well requires more than good intentions and a capable contractor. This is where data centre consultancy plays a defining role. Whether you are building from the ground up, expanding an existing facility or

Choosing who builds your data centre is one of the most consequential decisions a technology or infrastructure team will make. Once construction begins, timelines lock in, costs compound and design choices become difficult to reverse. Getting the partner selection right from the start has implications that extend well beyond budget, reaching into the long-term performance of your entire digital operation. So what should CTOs, CIOs and infrastructure leads actually be evalua

The data centre landscape across Southeast Asia is undergoing a structural shift. Infrastructure that was adequate for conventional enterprise workloads is being stress-tested by the demands of artificial intelligence, and many facilities are falling short. For CTOs, CIOs, and infrastructure decision-makers, the planning window is now. Much of the region’s data centre growth is being driven not by traditional enterprise IT expansion, but by the compute demands of AI inferen

Across Southeast Asia, the pressure to build faster, smarter, and more sustainably has never been greater. With AI adoption accelerating and demand for digital infrastructure outpacing the capacity of traditional construction methods, a growing number of operators and enterprises are turning to modular data centres as the architecture of choice for 2026 and beyond. The shift is not incidental. It reflects a practical response to a set of compounding constraints that conventio

In today's digital age, where data drives decision-making and innovation, data centres are more important than ever. With the massive increase in demand for storage, processing power, and energy efficiency, traditional cooling methods struggle to keep pace. Immersion cooling emerges as a revolutionary solution, offering fresh and effective ways to tackle the challenges faced by data centre operators. Acme has had the opportunity to play a part in the implementation of the liq

Acme today released its annual Earth Day Report, with new and bold initiatives towards its 2035 Carbon Neutral Goal. Since the 2035 carbon-neutral goal was announced in 2020, Acme's extensive efforts to revamp its building design strategies have drastically decreased its comprehensive carbon footprint across the board. "We're proud of our commitment towards the environment and we just can't wait to do more this year as we leap forward with some new goals," Ang Yew Chien, said

Introduction As digitalisation continues to shape our world, big data is what drives business operations and work processes today. As such, there lies a need to store this important information to ensure that private and confidential business data is not compromised. This is where data centres come in useful. Throughout this article, we go in-depth, exploring everything that needs to be known about data centres. But first, let’s take a look at the basics – What exactly is a d