Newton Fund - Next Generation Green Data Centres for Environmental and Business Sustainability
Find Similar History 34 Claim Ownership Request Data Change Add FavouriteTitle
CoPED ID
Status
Funders
Value
Start Date
End Date
Description
Rapid urbanisation in Malaysia and globally is driving socio-economic change and infrastructure development
that is resulting in high levels of current and projected demand for digital connectivity and data handling. Data
centres are key, but globally they are large consumers of energy with substantial emissions of greenhouse
gases and other pollutants that degrade urban air quality. Cooling represents more than half of the energy
consumption. To be located in the highly urbanised city of Petaling Jaya, the Next Generation Green Data
Centre proposed for this industrially driven collaboration will innovatively integrate novel Malaysian and UK
green energy and cooling technologies to reduce energy consumption by 50%, improving energy security and
reducing emissions. The project will create a replicable and commercially viable approach to sustainable
computing for reconciling urbanisation with environmental risk and climate change globally. In parallel the
collaboration will lead to significant social impact through improved urban air quality, enabling sustainable
connectivity, and the creation of a green technology commercialisation hub in Malaysia.
| Dearman Engine Company Limited | LEAD_ORG |
| Dearman Engine Company Limited | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Heriot-Watt University | PARTICIPANT_ORG |
| Derek Sumsion | PM_PER |
Subjects by relevance
- Emissions
- Energy consumption (energy technology)
- Greenhouse gases
- Climate changes
- Air quality
- Urbanisation
- Towns and cities
- Traffic
- Sustainable development
- Air pollution
- Energy efficiency
- Energy policy
- Safety and security
- Infrastructures
- Environmental changes
- Energy
- Urban design
- Data security
Extracted key phrases
- Generation Green Data Centres
- Newton Fund
- Energy consumption
- Green energy
- Rapid urbanisation
- Energy security
- Business Sustainability
- Urban air quality
- Economic change
- Green technology commercialisation hub
- Environmental
- Climate change
- Datum handling
- Digital connectivity
- Petaling Jaya