Official launch of Singtel’s new data centre brand Nxera (pronounced “nex-zeh-ra”).
(From left to right): Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit; Yuen Kuan Moon, Group CEO of Singtel; Guest-of-Honour, Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating
Minister for Economic Policies; Lee Theng Kiat, Chairman of Singtel; Kai Nargolwala, Chairman of Nxera. Image source: Singtel.
Singtel has announced a new data centre brand Nxera with the move coming as part of a four-pronged approach by Singtel to scale its regional data centre business.
Bill Chang, CEO of Nxera and Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit said:
As we build out our data centre business, we are putting in place a purpose-driven, fully aligned group of ecosystem partners with distinctive capabilities and unique platforms that will help us grow this digital infrastructure in an AI world – sustainably and responsibly. This means democratising AI access for enterprises, introducing renewable energy and sustainable technologies, and helping produce the talent for our new generation of data centres.
Singtel’s four-pronged approach will include:
- Singtel will collaborate with NVIDIA to make AI adoption more accessible in Singapore and across the region to support Singapore's updated National AI Strategy 2.0. NVIDIA GPU clusters will be hosted on Nxera’s AI data centre platform in the region while customers can leverage Singtel’s broadband network, submarine cables, and 5G network together with Singtel’s Paragon cloud platform to orchestrate their AI workloads in a multi-network and multi-cloud environment.
- To achieve operational net-zero emissions by 2028, Nxera is working with energy companies such as Sembcorp in Singapore and Gulf Energy, Medco Power and TNB Renewables in the region to tap on their renewable energy initiatives. Gulf Energy and Medco Power are partners in Nxera’s data centre joint ventures in Thailand and Indonesia respectively.
- To reach its sustainable data centre goals, Nxera aims to achieve the lowest PUE and the highest water usage efficiency by working with partners Deston, SGP Global, QCT, Shell, Stulz and Supermicro to establish a co-innovation platform to develop and test liquid and immersion cooling and water-saving technologies. When these technologies are operationalised, they will be implemented in DC Tuas in Singapore and data centres in the region.
- Nxera is creating a Regional Sustainable Data Centre Academy in collaboration with institutes of higher learning partners Singapore Institute of Technology, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic, and Institute of Technical Education. The goal is to develop talent for the industry and is expected to train more than 150 students annually. This collaboration will be extended to other institutes in its regional markets of Thailand and Indonesia in the next phase.
Nxera is currently developing three AI data centre projects in the region. The new 58MW (megawatt) DC Tuas in Singapore and data centres with partners Telkom and Medco Power in Indonesia and Gulf Energy and AIS in Thailand will increase its total pipeline capacity to more than 200MW from its current operational capacity of 62MW in Singapore.
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