Singapore unis launch a “cool” testbed for data centers in the tropics By Both NUS and NTU will collaborate to build a data center testbed by October 2021, under a new S$23 million research program. The Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed (STDCT) will promote the co-creation and demonstration of advanced cooling technologies. Of all the data centers in Southeast Asia, Singapore supplies about 60% of on-premise storage – consuming nearly 7% of the country’s total energy needs. That figure is projected to reach 12% by 2030, raising alarms about the need to reduce unsustainable power consumption in the city-state. That is exactly the motivation behind the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), who are working together with key stakeholders in Singapore’s data center industry to lower the sector’s carbon footprint.