ASEAN Data Centre
Although ASEAN has witnessed strong data centre growth in recent years, its data centre infrastructure relative to its population or GDP size still lags that of more evolved peers such
Relative to Asia Pacific where under construction/announced data centre build is 2x of the live capacity, same for ASEAN is at 4x and for Emerging ASEAN it's 8x. While the actual announcements are big, actual deployment on the ground is small. According to DCByte, capacities under construction in ASEAN are just 24% of the live capacity.
Compared with technologically advanced countries, ASEAN still faces a significant gap in data center infrastructure and investment, as highlighted by Maybank Research Pte Ltd (2024). The region currently has only 2.5 MW of data center capacity per one million people, while the United States has nearly 10 times more.
Given the intermittent nature of renewables like solar and wind, on-site energy storage is increasingly essential to support 24/7 data centre operations. One emerging solution is the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), which stores surplus energy and discharges it during periods of low production or peak demand.
In ASEAN, KDC has 6 data centres in Singapore and 1 in Cyberjaya, with Malaysia comprising slightly more than half of the portfolio. Five of the Singapore data centres and the Cyberjaya data centre are co-location assets while the remaining one in Singapore is on master-lease.
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