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Sustainable Data Centres and Impactful Energy Policy

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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.

Chapters

1. Sustainable Data Centres and Impactful Energy Policy (00:00:00)

2. Why Singapore placed a moratorium on new data center builds in 2019 and why it was lifted in 2022. (00:01:20)

3. Learning from moratoriums: A global perspective (00:03:38)

4. Crafting effective energy policies for data centres (00:05:26)

5. Cross-border green energy procurement and barriers (00:08:59)

6. Singapore’s green energy sovereignty: A complex landscape (00:10:29)

7. Nuclear power in the green energy mix (00:12:33)

8. Cooling technologies and the state in ASEAN (00:14:14)

9. How government can spur efficient cooling (00:15:50)

10. Choosing the right cooling technology: immersion vs. direct-to-chip (00:17:15)

11. Critical goods in the data center supply-chain (00:19:30)

12. Skilled labour to support the data centre ecosystem (00:21:40)

13. Policy recommendations for sustainable data centres (00:21:40)

14. Policy recommendations for sustainable data centres (00:24:26)

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