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Evolution Data Centres announces joint venture agreement with Central Pattana
Evolution Data Centres (EDC) today announced that they have signed a joint venture agreement with Central Pattana PCL to design, build and operate a state-of-the-art carrier-neutral data centre in central Bangkok. Central Pattana PCL is one of the largest property developers in Thailand. The company’s portfolio includes retail, residential, and mixed-use developments, as well as hotels and office buildings.
Reducing Data Centre Environmental Impact with Waterless Cooling
Blog – Simon Hamer, Evolution Data Centres’ CTO on Waterless Cooling
Data Centres are fundamental to the functioning of the modern digital economy. They power everything from social media platforms and e-commerce sites to cloud computing and artificial intelligence. However, these facilities come with significant environmental costs and one of the most pressing challenges is the efficient cooling of IT infrastructure.
Evolution Data Centres announces joint venture with Megawide to develop state of the art carrier-neutral data centre
Evolution Data Centres (EDC) today announced that they have signed a joint venture agreement with Megawide Construction Corp. (Megawide) to design, build and operate a state-of-the-art carrier-neutral data centre in the Philippines. Megawide is part of Citicore Holdings Investment Inc., who is also a major investor in renewable energy power generation businesses; property; and engineering, construction, and innovative infrastructure.
Evolution Data Centres meets with President Marcos and his new Government
Evolution’s co-founder and CIO Ed Martin-Sperry was recently invited to a roundtable discussion with President Marcos and his new Government
Evolution Partners with Warburg Pincus to Develop Sustainable Data Centres in Southeast Asia
Evolution Data Centres (EDC) has today entered into a programmatic joint venture with affiliates of Warburg Pincus for the development of sustainable hyper-scale data centres in the fast-growing cloud markets within Southeast Asia.
Evolution Data Centres announces Sustainable Data Centre Charter
Partners with ENGIE Impact to ensure independent verification of their environmental commitment.
Evolution Data Centres today announced their Sustainable Data Centre Charter. This defines a clear set of ambitious sustainability measures, against which their entire Data Centre Operations will be assessed.
Philippines Market on Singapore Business Review
A video interview with Singapore Business Review featuring Darren Webb, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Evolution Data Centres.
How the Philippines’ ‘underserved’ data centre market can evolve toward growth and our thoughts on the great opportunities this creates in this very exciting market.
Evolution & Engie Impact
Evolution Data Centres partners with Engie Impact to create and measure challenging sustainability standards.
We are today announcing our partnership with ENGIE Impact, a sustainability consulting firm. They’ll help us define a relevant set of sustainability KPIs and will independently assess our progress toward them. For the full announcement, click below.
Data Centre World QuickBite
A video interview featuring Edward Martin-Sperry, Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Evolution Data Centres.
APAC is one of the fastest developing data centre regions in the world poised to enter a new cycle of growth, led by the region’s larger emerging markets.
We discuss the opportunities and challenges for emerging markets in APAC, tackling sustainability, delivering hyperscale data centre facilities with the minimum possible environmental impact and leveraging renewable energy sources.
Should new Data Centres be built on greenfield or brownfield sites?
Greenfield or brownfield? There is no easy answer to the question of which has the least impact on the environment. At Evolution Data Centres we are committed to sustainable data centre construction and operation but choosing which way to go probably needs to be decided on a case by case basis. In this article we discuss the merits and challenges of both.
Data Centre Sustainability Priorities
Tackling sustainability is a daunting task for data centre operators. To affect positive change, we need to be challengers, but we also run a business, so our solutions have to be financially viable and mature enough to be deployed and managed in mission critical facilities.
Understanding and selecting the right technology from the wide range of sustainability solutions can be challenging. At Evolution Data Centres the top two questions that we always ask are “how feasible is this?” and “how impactful will this be?”.
In our quadrant model, we have ranked the various solutions by their feasibility vs their sustainability impact. Unsurprisingly, our key priorities are in the top right quadrant (high feasibility and high impact), while exploring tomorrow’s solutions are in other areas of the chart.
Renewable Power Sources Ranking
Not all renewables are created equal. Particularly for data centres which need very reliable power supply, intermittency is a big issue. In this infographic we have ranked the key renewable types by their capacity factor (a measure of constancy), it highlights how attractive baseload sources like geothermal are for data centres compared to much-hyped wind and solar.
Today, Asia’s DC industry is behind other regions in using clean power. This is particularly regrettable because of the abundant supply of baseload renewables resources in the region.
The Climate Conversations: What’s your video streaming got to do with climate change?
From streaming a movie on Netflix, to e-commerce and e-banking, we rely on data centres to process and communicate information at lightning speeds. Yet, they are energy and water guzzlers. How are governments balancing the lucrative opportunity of building more data centres, but also managing their large electricity footprint? And what does an eco-friendly data centre look like? Jaime Ho speaks to Darren Webb, co-founder and CEO of Evolution Data Centres, which specialises in sustainable data infrastructure.
Data Centre Sustainability
At Evolution we are acutely aware of the full sustainable lifecycle of a Data Centre and take this into consideration as we plan, build, and operate our facilities.
Everything from choosing the correct location, material selection, efficient design, and renewable power source, through to how you will operate reflect on the level of impact these facilities have on the environment.
To ensure you cover the full lifecycle of a truly sustainable Data Centre you need to plan from initial conception though to commissioning. You need to incorporate this from initial concept to ensure you are really delivering a fully sustainable facility.
If not, are you too late?
Money FM 893 Podcast
A podcast featuring Darren Webb, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Evolution Data Centres.
“Weekends: Strategies to make Data Centers more environmentally friendly”
#uptimepunks Podcast
A podcast featuring Darren Webb, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Evolution Data Centres.
“Why there is no such thing as a green data centre”
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TMT Finance article
A new regional datacentre platform, named Evolution Data Centres, has been co-founded by former IO Data Centers’ Asia head Darren Webb and ING’s former Head of Asia TMT Corporate Finance, Ed Martin-Sperry, who formally joins in October 2021.
Do we believe that Batam will be the new digital data centre hub?
Darren Webb CEO of Evolution, talks to the Straits Times about the potential of Batam for Data Centres.
