JAY PARK FOUNDER AND CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER , DIGITAL EDGE

Jay Park , Founder and Chief Development Officer at Digital Edge , says the key to reducing electricity consumption and carbon footprint is to improve power usage effectiveness ( PUE ), while he also advocates a more considered approach towards water consumption .

Park points to research carried out by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ), which found it takes approximately four gallons of water to produce one kWh of power .

“ For the 20MW data centre , which is equivalent to our Jakarta EDGE2 data centre , if we reduce PUE by 0.2 we ’ ll be able to save 140 million gallons of water per year at the power-generation end ,” he reveals .

“ This equates to 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools . If we ’ re talking about the bigger companies , which are building 100MW data centres , it would be more than 1,000 pools each year – and that ’ s a lot of water .”

Leveraging tech to enhance efficiency Park ’ s take is that , as a data centre constructor and operator , investing in energy efficiency can only be a win-win situation for Digital Edge .

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