Gigabit December 2018
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ASIA–PACIFIC<br />
It opened to much fanfare on the<br />
15th November and is a 16.8MW<br />
two-storey, six-data hall facility data<br />
centre with office space. MV Power<br />
Generation (11kV) is installed within the<br />
SYD11 facility, capable of efficient and<br />
fast demand response and to date, the<br />
capital investment for the facility is<br />
around $100 million, with another<br />
$50-100 million to go.<br />
“We’re just finishing at the moment,<br />
putting the final polish on,” says Daniel<br />
Howard, Digital Realty’s Director of<br />
Construction APAC. “It’s a two-story<br />
data centre and we are using the<br />
lightest technology in lithium battery<br />
UPSs, which has given us a much more<br />
streamlined footprint, so we can fit<br />
more power into a small space in<br />
comparison to our previous generation<br />
data centres, such as the SYD10<br />
Erskine Park I facility.<br />
“We’ve got MV Power Generation<br />
so we’ve got the ability to come off grid<br />
quite simply now and can support the<br />
whole site with generation. This allows<br />
us to match the generation capacity<br />
to the load experienced at the time,<br />
whereas, with the traditional or low-voltage<br />
generation system you can’t really<br />
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