Infrastructure Investor: Actis bets on hyperscale demand with Asian data centre platform

Thomas Liu, Partner, Head of Greater China and Asia Data Centre, Real Estate at Actis, spoke with Infrastructure Investor about Actis’ launch of Epoch Digital, its data centre platform in Asia which is developing assets in Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea to meet the growing data centre demand from hyperscaler customers. The piece explores rising demand for data centres in Asia, why hyperscalers are demanding low-carbon, sustainable data centres in particular, and what Actis is doing to capitalise on this opportunity. Click here to read the article and read on below for some of Thomas’ comments.

Thomas Liu, Partner, Head of Greater China and Asia Data Centre, Real Estate at Actis, commented:

“Everyone is very aligned and very incentivised to find renewable solutions for this massive growth in data. There’s no reversal of that.

“Everywhere we go where we have data centres, and where our energy and infrastructure teams have a renewable business on the ground, we will link the two. We will connect them and see how we can deliver renewables to our assets.

“Our renewable credentials are important, because if we come to the table and say, ‘We will try to figure out the renewable piece’, we’re not just another data centre platform. We have a strong in-house team that knows how to do renewables in these emerging markets.”