South-east Asia’s reality check: What’s hindering data centres’ green transition?

[SINGAPORE] Powered by large-scale data centres, South-east-Asia’s digital economy is expanding at breakneck speed – but the region’s clean energy transition is struggling to keep up.

From soaring green energy costs and policy uncertainty to ageing national power grids compounded by the absence of an interconnected Asean power network, the challenges facing a fully sustainable operation are mounting.

With clean power supply – and the infrastructure to deliver it – not moving at the same pace, the gap between the region’s energy ambitions and reality is getting wider.