The Asia-Pacific Data Centre Association (APDCA) has launched a new white paper titled “Data centres as catalysts for infrastructure modernisation in APAC”, highlighting how data centres are helping to strengthen the energy and water systems needed to support Asia Pacific’s future development.
As governments across Asia Pacific look to harness artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and digital technologies to drive economic growth, data centres are emerging as critical strategic infrastructure underpinning the region’s development. The paper examines how the sector is contributing not only to digital growth, but also to the development and modernisation of the utility infrastructure on which economies and communities depend.
Drawing on expert interviews with data centre operators as well as insights from academics and civil society organisations, the report presents new evidence of how data centres are acting as long-term demand anchors for energy and wa
