The pandemic-driven rise of data centres

Covid-19 has set off a data centre boom in Asean, but can the region sustain the pace of growth in years to come?  WED, APR 14, 2021   RICHARD FARRELL ,  Asia-Pacific director, cloud and data centre segment, at Eaton. Singapore's approximately 60 data centres currently consume 7% of the country's total energy - a figure that is set to increase to 12% by 2030. PHOTO: DITROLIC (S) PTE LTD MANY  are now familiar with the massive acceleration of digitalisation that defined 2020. As Covid-19 spread across the globe, businesses had to quic…