MDDI 演講稿 · 2024-06-03
Janil Puthucheary 高階政務部長在「與 Google 共建可持續資料中心」活動上的演講
要點
- • NAIS 2.0（去年 12 月推出）+ 5 億新元算力投入。AI 進展讓資料中心容量需求繼續上行——但能源與碳約束意味著「容量增長 = 必須更可持續」。
- • 上週四釋出《綠色資料中心路線圖》——兩條主線：①加速資料中心的能效與綠色能源使用；②促成跨資料中心生態的協作方案。
- • 熱帶資料中心標準——抬高執行溫度 = 降低冷卻能耗。Google 已把新加坡 PUE 降到 1.2 以下；Digital Realty 已說服客戶在更高溫下執行；GovTech 在一處資料中心試點了「熱帶 DC 標準」——溫度提高 2°C、冷卻能耗平均降低 40%。
- • 擴充套件支援端使用者——「能效補助」（Energy Efficiency Grant）將延伸到資料中心行業；預算辯論上宣佈。
- • 新標準在路上——IMDA 與產業夥伴共同制定「IT 能效」與「液冷」標準，目標 2025 年底引入；並支援低碳能源（生物能、建築光伏、含碳捕獲的燃料電池、低碳氫與氨等）。
完整譯文（繁體中文）
MDDI 英文原文譯文 · 翻譯日期: 2026-05-03
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下午好，各位女士、先生。非常感謝 Kate Brandt 女士的介紹——也感謝精彩的演講。我去過 Google 幾次——每次來——我都覺得學到點新東西——今天也不例外。可惜的是——每次我來這裡——似乎都要來一場小測驗。感謝 Google 邀請我——很高興和大家在一起。
讓我從 Brandt 女士演講中關於 AI 的一點接續。新加坡去年 12 月釋出《國家 AI 戰略 2.0》（NAIS 2.0）——重新整理了我們「把新加坡推為 AI 領先者、釋放其巨大變革潛能」的戰略。我們在 NAIS 2.0 之下進行雄心勃勃的投入——包括投入高達 5 億新元——為 AI 創新提供算力可獲得性。
自那之後——AI 發展的節奏從未停歇。AI 技術與採用持續快速增長。僅上個月——Google 釋出了一系列 AI 產品（包括從文本提示生成影片的「Veo」），OpenAI 釋出了 GPT-4o。這些進展昭示了 AI 的動態成長與快速「民主化」——也只能強化我們的決心——把 AI 用在「公共利益」上——為新加坡，也為世界。
AI 的成長——是資料中心帶給我們機會的鮮明例子。要同樣捕獲數字化、自主系統等其他趨勢——我們必須擴大「承載這些趨勢所需算力」的資料中心容量。然而——在能源與碳約束下——只有讓資料中心更可持續——容量才能繼續增長。
這不是新加坡獨有的挑戰。最終——世界各地的所有人——都會面對這些約束。但對我們新加坡來說——因為體量與資源約束——我們更早抵達這一思考點。因為我們是誰——我們決心把這些約束轉化為機會——一種創新機會——讓我們既從資料中心的成長中捕獲價值——也兌現國際氣候承諾。
因此——去年我們的《數字連通藍圖》（Digital Connectivity Blueprint）——勾勒了「為綠色資料中心的成長畫出路徑、推可持續性邊界」的意圖。在那份藍圖中——資料中心只是其中一塊拼圖——還有衛星連線、海底電纜、執行在其上的軟體等其他要素。上週四釋出的《綠色資料中心路線圖》——延續了這一努力。
該路線圖為新加坡資料中心的可持續與持續增長——畫出一條路徑。它支撐我們對數字經濟與 NAIS 2.0 的雄心。它從兩條大思路展開——第一是——加速資料中心的能效與綠色能源使用；第二是——促成資料中心扮演「催化劑」的角色——在更廣義的資料中心生態中培育協作方案。第一條是——把資料中心做得更好：使用一流節能裝置、重新整理裝置、重新整理軟體、電力與水的利用、抬高溫度。第二條是——與方案提供者合作設計與運營更高效的資料中心、與能源供應商合作引入綠色能源路徑、與企業終端使用者合作採用能效最佳實踐。每個經歷過這種轉變的行業裡——加速都發生在「整條價值鏈裡所有人都唱同一首歌」時——價值鏈才開始大幅度移動。我們已經在許多行業看到這種「Playbook」——我們想把它應用到資料中心生態。
即便在新加坡的熱帶氣候下——資料中心也能採取許多更可持續的行動。比如——在更高溫度下執行——降低冷卻所需的能耗——讓資料中心更節能。Google 在新加坡已經這麼做——這幫其資料中心的 PUE 降到 1.2 以下。「主機託管」服務商 Digital Realty 也說服了客戶——在更高溫度下執行——結果實現了顯著的能耗節約。
我的另一項職責——是與「政府科技局」（GovTech）合作——協調政府 IT 工作——為新加坡構建產品、執行算力與資料中心服務。GovTech 也是這種方法的早期採用者。我很高興分享——GovTech 在其一處資料中心成功試點了「熱帶資料中心標準」——把執行溫度提高 2°C——把資料中心冷卻基礎設施所需能耗平均降低 40%——同時保持在 IT 裝置的執行溫度範圍內。GovTech 現在正在探索——把同樣的「提高執行溫度」做法推廣到其他資料中心。我也很高興——Google 設立了一個標準——而在公共部門——我們也展現了我們對「以可持續方式發展資料中心」的承諾。
我們將繼續支援資料中心更節能——包括採用「熱帶資料中心標準」。資料中心也能借力「資源效率（排放）補助」（Resource Efficiency Grant for Emissions）來支援升級。
但是——可持續不只是資料中心的責任。資料中心的終端使用者也扮演重要角色——能驅動可持續性的改進。他們可以採取相對簡單的行動——比如安裝節能 IT 裝置（如 Energy Star 認證裝置）、使用「虛擬化」等技術最佳化伺服器效率。就像我們從設施側幫忙一樣——我們也會在這條路上幫助終端使用者。如今年預算辯論中所宣佈——「能效補助」（Energy Efficiency Grant）將在今年稍晚——延伸到資料中心行業——幫助終端使用者加速向更節能裝置的升級。
我們也會承擔自己的角色。最終——我們必須並將繼續與產業緊密合作——推動可持續資料中心增長的邊界。比如——我們正在共同制定支援升級的新標準。IMDA 與我們的產業夥伴正緊鑼密鼓——為「IT 能效」與「液冷」制定標準——目標是 2025 年底引入。我們也將促成產業推邊界——交付低碳能源——包括生物能、垂直建築光伏（BIPV）或建築應用光伏（BAPV）、含碳捕獲的燃料電池、低碳氫與氨。
結尾——我們承諾以「更可持續」的方式——成長新加坡的資料中心行業。我期待與產業合作——把這一成長編排好——為新加坡與世界——交付 AI 與數字化的好處。
謝謝。
英文原文
MDDI 官網原始記錄 · 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.