Sustainable Data Centres and Impactful Energy Policy

Podcast guest: Professor LEE Poh Seng, Executive Director, Energy Studies Institute, NUS. In this episode, Dr. Lee Poh Seng, head of Singapore’s Energy Studies Institute, speaks about data centres and effective energy policy. Taking Singapore as a case-study, he underscores the importance of green energy imports, innovative green energy solutions like modular nuclear reactors and ambitious projects like importing solar energy from Australia, and investing in efficient cooling technologies. Dr. Lee provides clear policy guidelines for governments to incentivize the adoption of efficient cooling technologies. He also charts the various types of skilled labour required to support a thriving data centre ecosystem, and recommendations for both policymakers and data centre operators to meet their sustainability needs. Further reading: Access Partnership’s report on green data centres and the economic value of data centres: Green data centres: Singapore’s sustainable data centre opportunity Access Partnership’s report on global data centre policy and sustainability: Global Data Centres Policy and Sustainability Report Singapore’s green data centre roadmap: Green DC Roadmap | IMDAFollow us on ⁠Twitter and ⁠LinkedIn and subscribe to our ⁠YouTube channel for more content like this.