By early 2020, Jakarta will get its first green data center campus. SpaceDC, the company behind the initiative, plans to use natural gas to produce electricity to power the data center.
The 1.8-hectare (4.4-acre) campus in Jakarta Barat will house two data centers, the first being JAK2, a 2.6-megawatt Tier III facility.
“Lowering the environmental impact of data centers is at the heart of SpaceDC’s company philosophy. When selecting a site, we always look for innovative ways to use local natural resources to create green energy and reduce our carbon footprint,” said Darren Hawkins, CEO of SpaceDC.“Our 26.6-megawatt Indonesian campus will be powered by natural gas, which will both reduce the environmental impact and increase the overall fault tolerance of the site.”
Jakarta typically experiences unreliable electricity supply, as there is insufficient electrical generation capacity across Indonesia. To address this, SpaceDC designed the site to run on natural gas.
“Creating a stable power supply to ensure service continuity was a major consideration for SpaceDC when building a data facility in Indonesia,” said Hawkins. “There are two natural gas pipelines running alongside the site, which means that if there’s a fault in the supply from one, we can divert to the other.”
The site also will recycle waste heat from the gas generators to provide cooling through absorption chillers, a unique energy-saving feature for a data center in Southeast Asia.
