Asia's hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid

Southeast Asia's hyperscalers face plenty of challenges – from securing talent, property, and keeping construction costs down – but these hurdles pale in comparison to the task of banking enough power. "The countries in APAC today are actually power deficient," lamented BDx Data Centers CEO Mayank Srivastava, speaking in …

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Shirley there must be a mistake

Across Asia, power companies are bemoaning the loss of business and the need to mothball power plants, as the shift to cloud has seen millions of irregularly loaded old on-premises servers replaced with centralised cloud datacenters running optimal loads distributed across more efficient modern processors, drastically reducing the energy demands of IT operations.

That is what you meant to write, surely...

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If the demand for infinite exponential profit is anything to go by, those "low cost of construction & labor" areas are probably going to end up with regular extended grid outages due to over-allocation. The only thing still allowed to run will be "critical infrastructure", which now conveniently includes those datacenters despite them majorly exacerbating the load on an already taxed grid.

At least for one beautiful moment, lots of revenue was generated for shareholders.

[Anonymous Coward]

What the experts are saying…

She’s barely above operating capacity Captain, aye don’t know how much more data center cores she can take!

-Montgomery Scott, Electrical Grid Engineer

You know what this means Boo Boo? Warmer earth, shorter hybernation… we’ll need more food. Let’s go see what’s in those picnic baskets.

-Yogi Bear, Survivalist