Newton Fund - Next Generation Green Data Centres for Environmental and Business Sustainability

马来西亚和全球的快速城市化正在推动社会经济变革和基础设施发展，这导致了对数字连接和数据处理的高水平的当前和预测需求。数据中心是关键，但在全球范围内，它们是能源的大消费者，排放大量温室气体和其他污染物，降低城市空气质量。冷却占能源消耗的一半以上。为这一工业驱动的合作提出的下一代绿色数据中心将位于高度城市化的八打灵再也，将创新地整合马来西亚和英国的新型绿色能源和冷却技术，以减少50%的能源消耗，提高能源安全性并减少排放。该项目将创造一种可复制的、商业上可行的可持续计算方法，以协调全球城市化与环境风险和气候变化的关系。与此同时，通过改善城市空气质量，实现可持续的连通性，并在马来西亚创建一个绿色技术商业化中心，该项目将产生重大的社会影响。

Rapid urbanisation in Malaysia and globally is driving socio-economic change and infrastructure developmentthat is resulting in high levels of current and projected demand for digital connectivity and data handling. Datacentres are key, but globally they are large consumers of energy with substantial emissions of greenhousegases and other pollutants that degrade urban air quality. Cooling represents more than half of the energyconsumption. To be located in the highly urbanised city of Petaling Jaya, the Next Generation Green DataCentre proposed for this industrially driven collaboration will innovatively integrate novel Malaysian and UKgreen energy and cooling technologies to reduce energy consumption by 50%, improving energy security andreducing emissions. The project will create a replicable and commercially viable approach to sustainablecomputing for reconciling urbanisation with environmental risk and climate change globally. In parallel thecollaboration will lead to significant social impact through improved urban air quality, enabling sustainableconnectivity, and the creation of a green technology commercialisation hub in Malaysia.