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as essential:“ We work with different fibre connectivity providers into our site. We have an understanding with SPTel, which is a local provider that provides fibre connectivity from Batam right to Singapore via the government gas pipeline link between Indonesia and Singapore. We also work with different partners as well, like SEAX and Moratel.”
Sustainability features target certification standards Environmental considerations have evolved beyond energy efficiency to encompass water consumption, construction waste and carbon footprint. Golden Digital Gateway targets Building and Construction Authority Green Mark certification from Singapore’ s green building programme.
“ At Gaw Capital, whenever we’ ve designed our data centres, sustainability is extremely important, and we try to embed it into every phase of the DC design, construction and operations,” Nicholas outlines.“ Specifically at Golden Digital Gateway, during construction, we used recycled materials and repurposed some of the excavation waste into the landscaping.”
Taking a modular approach to data centre construction has helped reduce on-site waste through factorycontrolled manufacturing.“ We made sure that we constructed the building on a very modular basis,” Kah Jin describes.“ A lot of the things we built were tested in the factory before we shipped them out. For our project, we were able to achieve BCA Green Mark certification.”
The facility’ s cooling design prioritises air cooling over waterintensive systems.“ What’ s unique about our facility in its first phase is that we are air-cooled, so we have less reliance on water, which is becoming more of a scarce resource,” says Kah Jin.
What’ s more, the infrastructure incorporates flexibility for future requirements as AI workloads may require liquid cooling systems.“ We’ ve tried to ensure the design we’ ve come up with is as future-proof as possible,” says Nicholas.“ We’ ve got quite a lot of flexibility in tweaking the design
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