Infrastructure Investor: Spreading the data centres load

Thomas Liu, Partner, Head of Greater China and Asia Data Centre, Real Estate at Actis, has been quoted by Infrastructure Investor in its latest piece on rising demand for data centres. Click here to read the full article in the digital issue of the magazine (pp. 62-64), here to read it online in PERE or read on below for a snapshot of Thomas’ commentary.

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

“Ultimately, I think investors today are weighing up both financial and environmental considerations. However, the presence of sustainable energy is certainly becoming a more important factor. When data centres were only required to facilitate cloud computing, it was more important that they were close to customers. Now, with the emergence of power-hungry AI, and because latency is less important with AI training models, data centre operators and investors have the option of selecting locations where green power makes up a greater proportion of the energy mix.”