Data Centre Week: Power Becomes APAC’s Defining Constraint — 26 June 2026
Power, not land, defined the week: Singapore's 700MW Jurong Island park, APAC grid limits, IP-KVM security flaws, DCIM consolidation and Empyrion's Johor approval.
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Intelligent PDUs for High-Density AI Racks: Why the Circuit Average Hides Risk
A 50 kW rack is now an ordinary AI deployment. An NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack draws around 132 kW. The power chain feeding it, the rack PDU included, was specified…
More sources than the wall can hold
A broadcast control room used to mean a wall of monitors. One display per source, hard-wired, fixed in place. Add a camera, add a feed, find room for another…
Where DCIM actually sits now
A DCIM migration is the project nobody volunteers for. Re-entering asset data, retraining the team, a rollout that runs longer than planned, on a system you…
What drives the switch
A KVM matrix has always waited for a hand. An operator presses a hotkey, a preset, a button, and the source on screen changes. That model holds until the…
The device the review walks past
During operational technology security assessments, critical infrastructure components often slip through the cracks. The serial console server is frequently…
The case for removing the walk
A server hangs at 2 am. The fix takes two minutes at the console. Reaching the console takes a drive, a badge, and a walk to the far end of the data hall. Most…
More sources than screens
An industrial control room watches more sources than it has screens. CCTV from the perimeter and the plant floor. SCADA and HMI screens from the process.…
One appliance per site, one portal for all of them
A switch fails at a branch site. There is no IT staff on site. The nearest engineer is hours away by road. The monitoring platform that should tell you what…
