MDDI 演讲稿 · 2024-06-03
Janil Puthucheary 高级政务部长在「与 Google 共建可持续数据中心」活动上的演讲
"Sustainable Data Centres with Google" speech by SMS Janil Puthucheary
要点
- • NAIS 2.0（去年 12 月推出）+ 5 亿新元算力投入。AI 进展让数据中心容量需求继续上行——但能源与碳约束意味着「容量增长 = 必须更可持续」。
- • 上周四发布《绿色数据中心路线图》——两条主线：①加速数据中心的能效与绿色能源使用；②促成跨数据中心生态的协作方案。
- • 热带数据中心标准——抬高运行温度 = 降低冷却能耗。Google 已把新加坡 PUE 降到 1.2 以下；Digital Realty 已说服客户在更高温下运行；GovTech 在一处数据中心试点了「热带 DC 标准」——温度提高 2°C、冷却能耗平均降低 40%。
- • 扩展支持端用户——「能效补助」（Energy Efficiency Grant）将延伸到数据中心行业；预算辩论上宣布。
- • 新标准在路上——IMDA 与产业伙伴共同制定「IT 能效」与「液冷」标准，目标 2025 年底引入；并支持低碳能源（生物能、建筑光伏、含碳捕获的燃料电池、低碳氢与氨等）。
完整译文（中文）
MDDI 英文原文译文 · 翻译日期：2026-05-03
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下午好，各位女士、先生。非常感谢 Kate Brandt 女士的介绍——也感谢精彩的演讲。我去过 Google 几次——每次来——我都觉得学到点新东西——今天也不例外。可惜的是——每次我来这里——似乎都要来一场小测验。感谢 Google 邀请我——很高兴和大家在一起。
让我从 Brandt 女士演讲中关于 AI 的一点接续。新加坡去年 12 月发布《国家 AI 战略 2.0》（NAIS 2.0）——刷新了我们「把新加坡推为 AI 领先者、释放其巨大变革潜能」的战略。我们在 NAIS 2.0 之下进行雄心勃勃的投入——包括投入高达 5 亿新元——为 AI 创新提供算力可获得性。
自那之后——AI 发展的节奏从未停歇。AI 技术与采用持续快速增长。仅上个月——Google 发布了一系列 AI 产品（包括从文本提示生成视频的「Veo」），OpenAI 发布了 GPT-4o。这些进展昭示了 AI 的动态成长与快速「民主化」——也只能强化我们的决心——把 AI 用在「公共利益」上——为新加坡，也为世界。
AI 的成长——是数据中心带给我们机会的鲜明例子。要同样捕获数字化、自主系统等其他趋势——我们必须扩大「承载这些趋势所需算力」的数据中心容量。然而——在能源与碳约束下——只有让数据中心更可持续——容量才能继续增长。
这不是新加坡独有的挑战。最终——世界各地的所有人——都会面对这些约束。但对我们新加坡来说——因为体量与资源约束——我们更早抵达这一思考点。因为我们是谁——我们决心把这些约束转化为机会——一种创新机会——让我们既从数据中心的成长中捕获价值——也兑现国际气候承诺。
因此——去年我们的《数字连通蓝图》（Digital Connectivity Blueprint）——勾勒了「为绿色数据中心的成长画出路径、推可持续性边界」的意图。在那份蓝图中——数据中心只是其中一块拼图——还有卫星连接、海底电缆、运行在其上的软件等其他要素。上周四发布的《绿色数据中心路线图》——延续了这一努力。
该路线图为新加坡数据中心的可持续与持续增长——画出一条路径。它支撑我们对数字经济与 NAIS 2.0 的雄心。它从两条大思路展开——第一是——加速数据中心的能效与绿色能源使用；第二是——促成数据中心扮演「催化剂」的角色——在更广义的数据中心生态中培育协作方案。第一条是——把数据中心做得更好：使用一流节能设备、刷新设备、刷新软件、电力与水的利用、抬高温度。第二条是——与方案提供者合作设计与运营更高效的数据中心、与能源供应商合作引入绿色能源路径、与企业终端用户合作采用能效最佳实践。每个经历过这种转变的行业里——加速都发生在「整条价值链里所有人都唱同一首歌」时——价值链才开始大幅度移动。我们已经在许多行业看到这种「Playbook」——我们想把它应用到数据中心生态。
即便在新加坡的热带气候下——数据中心也能采取许多更可持续的行动。比如——在更高温度下运行——降低冷却所需的能耗——让数据中心更节能。Google 在新加坡已经这么做——这帮其数据中心的 PUE 降到 1.2 以下。「主机托管」服务商 Digital Realty 也说服了客户——在更高温度下运行——结果实现了显著的能耗节约。
我的另一项职责——是与「政府科技局」（GovTech）合作——协调政府 IT 工作——为新加坡构建产品、运行算力与数据中心服务。GovTech 也是这种方法的早期采用者。我很高兴分享——GovTech 在其一处数据中心成功试点了「热带数据中心标准」——把运行温度提高 2°C——把数据中心冷却基础设施所需能耗平均降低 40%——同时保持在 IT 设备的运行温度范围内。GovTech 现在正在探索——把同样的「提高运行温度」做法推广到其他数据中心。我也很高兴——Google 设立了一个标准——而在公共部门——我们也展现了我们对「以可持续方式发展数据中心」的承诺。
我们将继续支持数据中心更节能——包括采用「热带数据中心标准」。数据中心也能借力「资源效率（排放）补助」（Resource Efficiency Grant for Emissions）来支持升级。
但是——可持续不只是数据中心的责任。数据中心的终端用户也扮演重要角色——能驱动可持续性的改进。他们可以采取相对简单的行动——比如安装节能 IT 设备（如 Energy Star 认证设备）、使用「虚拟化」等技术优化服务器效率。就像我们从设施侧帮忙一样——我们也会在这条路上帮助终端用户。如今年预算辩论中所宣布——「能效补助」（Energy Efficiency Grant）将在今年稍晚——延伸到数据中心行业——帮助终端用户加速向更节能设备的升级。
我们也会承担自己的角色。最终——我们必须并将继续与产业紧密合作——推动可持续数据中心增长的边界。比如——我们正在共同制定支持升级的新标准。IMDA 与我们的产业伙伴正紧锣密鼓——为「IT 能效」与「液冷」制定标准——目标是 2025 年底引入。我们也将促成产业推边界——交付低碳能源——包括生物能、垂直建筑光伏（BIPV）或建筑应用光伏（BAPV）、含碳捕获的燃料电池、低碳氢与氨。
结尾——我们承诺以「更可持续」的方式——成长新加坡的数据中心行业。我期待与产业合作——把这一成长编排好——为新加坡与世界——交付 AI 与数字化的好处。
谢谢。
英文原文
MDDI 官网原始记录 · 抓取日期：2026-05-02
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much to Ms Kate Brandt for the introduction, and for the lecture as well. I’ve been to Google a few times, and every time I come here, I feel like I learn something new — today is no different. Unfortunately, it seems like every time I come here, I’ll have to take a quiz. I thank Google for inviting me here today. It is my pleasure to be with all of you.
Let me pick up from a point that Ms Brandt made in her presentation, which is about AI. Singapore launched our National AI Strategy 2.0 in December last year. NAIS 2.0 sets out our refreshed strategy to propel Singapore as a leader in AI to realise its enormous transformative potential. We are making ambitious investments under NAIS 2.0, including investing up to $500 million to enable access to compute for AI innovation.
The pace of AI development since then has been relentless. AI tech and adoption continue to grow swiftly. Just last month, Google launched a slew of AI products including Veo, a generative AI model that creates videos from text prompts, while OpenAI released GPT-4o. These developments signal the dynamic growth and rapid democratisation of AI. They only reinforce our resolve to harness AI for the Public Good, both for Singapore and the world.
The growth of AI is a striking example of the opportunities data centres enable us to capture. To similarly harness other trends like digitalisation and the growing use of autonomous systems, we must grow the data centre capacity that houses compute powering these trends. Yet with energy and carbon constraints, data centre capacity can only grow by redoubling efforts to make data centres more sustainable.
This challenge is not unique to Singapore. Eventually, all of us — wherever we are around the world — are going to be faced with these constraints. But for us here in Singapore, we’re reaching this point of consideration because of our size and resource constraints. Because of who we are, we are determined to turn these constraints into opportunity: opportunity to innovate, so that we capture value from the growth of data centres while meeting our international climate commitments.
Hence, last year, our Digital Connectivity Blueprint spelled out our intent to map a path for the growth of green data centres and push the sustainability envelope. For that Blueprint, data centres were only one part of the puzzle — there are other elements such as satellite connectivity, subsea cable connectivity, as well as the software that rides on all these things. Our Green Data Centre Roadmap, launched last Thursday, continues this effort.
The Roadmap charts a pathway for the continued and sustainable growth of data centres in Singapore. It supports our ambitions for the digital economy and NAIS 2.0. It does so in two broad ways. Firstly, to accelerate data centres’ energy efficiency and use of green energy. Secondly, to facilitate data centres in catalysing partnerships and fostering collaborative solutions across the wider data centre ecosystem. So the first way is about making data centres better: whether it’s about data centres using first-in-class efficient equipment or refreshing their equipment, the software, the power and water utilisation, and raising the temperature. The second one is about partnerships with solution providers to design and operate data centres more efficiently, with energy suppliers to bring in green energy pathways, and with enterprise end-users to adopt best practices for energy efficiency. In every industry that has had to undergo such shifts, the acceleration of the shift only occurs when everybody in the entire value chain is singing to the same tune. The value chain then starts to shift significantly. We see this already in many industries, so there’s a playbook for this, and we want to apply this to the data centre ecosystem.
There are many actions data centres can take to be more sustainable, even in Singapore’s tropical climate. For example, operating at higher temperatures helps to reduce the energy needed for cooling and makes a data centre more energy-efficient. And Google is already doing so in Singapore, which has contributed to bringing their data centres’ PUE below 1.2. Colocation providers like Digital Realty have also convinced their customers to operate at higher temperatures, and as a result, have realised significant energy savings.
One of my portfolios is to work with the Government Technology Agency to coordinate what we do for IT across government — building products and running the compute and data centre services for Singapore. GovTech too is an early adopter of this approach. I am pleased to share that GovTech has successfully trialled the Tropical Data Centre standard at one of its data centres. Increasing operating temperatures by 2 degrees Celsius and reducing the energy required to operate the data centre cooling infrastructure by 40% on average, while keeping within the IT equipment’s operating temperature range. GovTech is now exploring similarly raising the operating temperature at other data centres. I’m glad that Google has set a standard, and that in the public sector, we have been able to demonstrate our commitment to the sustainable approach in the development of data centres as well.
We will continue to support data centres to be more energy efficient, including by adopting the Tropical Data Centre standard. Data centres can tap on incentives like the Resource Efficiency Grant for Emissions to support upgrading.
However, sustainability is not just the data centres’ responsibility. Data centre end-users have an important role to play to drive sustainability improvements. They can take relatively simple actions like installing energy-efficient IT equipment, such as Energy Star certified equipment, and using techniques like virtualisation to optimise the efficiency of their servers. Just as we’re helping from a facility perspective, we will help end-users on this journey. As announced at this year’s Budget debates, the Energy Efficiency Grant will be extended the data centre sector later this year, to help end-users accelerate their upgrade to more energy-efficient equipment.
We will also play our part. Ultimately, we must and will continue our close partnership with industry to push boundaries for sustainable data centre growth. For example, we are codeveloping new standards to support upgrades. Our Infocomm Media Development Authority and our industry partners are working hard to develop standards for IT energy efficiency and liquid cooling, which are targeted to be introduced by the end of 2025. We will also facilitate the industry in pushing the boundaries to deliver low-carbon energy sources. These include bioenergy, vertical building integrated photovoltaics or building applied photovoltaics, fuel cells with carbon capture, and low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia.
In conclusion, we are committed to growing the data centre sector in Singapore through being more sustainable. I look forward to partnering industry to orchestrate this growth, and deliver the benefits of AI and digitalisation for Singapore and the world.
Thank you.