In supporting Singapore’s Green Plan 20301, Equinix, Inc. the world's digital infrastructure company®, today announced the company’s sixth International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) in Singapore, to be named SG6. With an initial investment of $260 million, this new facility will be covered by renewable energy and provide liquid cooling capability to support compute-intensive workloads, including AI.
SG6 will be added to Equinix's global network of interconnected data centers, facilitating low-latency, high-bandwidth connections between AI resources and data sources, enabling efficient AI workflows across different geographic locations. This capability is particularly valuable for organizations with stringent latency requirements or those seeking to leverage AI at scale across diverse infrastructures.
Singapore aims to leverage AI to drive innovation and economic growth and be one of the first in the world to launch an AI governance framework. The drive for technology leadership in the region also sees the nation making significant investments in quantum technology, blockchain, and edge computing. These technologies require substantial computing power and data processing resources, which has prompted the island-state to boost data center capacity with trusted and environmentally responsible suppliers to achieve these technology aspirations sustainably.
Equinix is taking significant steps towards sustainability, including the adoption of a renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) in Singapore with Sembcorp Industries. Other sustainability innovations include using lower carbon building materials, energy-efficient water-cooled chiller and cooling towers, rainwater harvesting capabilities and more. Equinix will offer liquid cooling technology in SG6, which is able to transfer heat more efficiently than air, to ensure effective cooling for high-power applications. The addition of this new data center will allow Equinix to support Singaporean businesses and the nation to handle AI and other high computational needs in a more sustainable manner.
As a steward of sustainability, Equinix is dedicated to driving private-public sector partnerships across Singapore and the APAC region, with the aim of paving the way for the long-term sustainability of data centers. For instance, Equinix collaborated with College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore to assess various types of alternative power supplies and their reliability, cost, operating conditions and environmental impact, to help data center companies make an informed decision when implementing alternate fuel supply systems. The company also collaborated with IMDA and Dell Technologies to provide guidance and recommendations to modernize digital infrastructure deployment sustainably and to optimize the integration and utilization between hardware and software interfaces.
