Data Centre Week: Power Becomes APAC’s Defining Constraint — 26 June 2026
This week in APAC data centres
- Singapore is reserving 20 hectares on Jurong Island for a 700MW green data centre park, potentially lifting national supply by about 50 percent (DataCenterDynamics).
- Power access has overtaken land as the top constraint on APAC growth, with 1,150+ projects and 32GW of planned capacity straining grids (Wood Mackenzie).
- Eclypsium disclosed nine IP-KVM CVEs across four products, the worst rated CVSS 9.8 with no fix (The Hacker News).
- Empyrion Digital cleared its Johor campus power and regulatory approvals, targeting first-phase readiness in Q4 2026 (Empyrion Digital).
Power, not land, was the through-line this week: Singapore opened more capacity while regulators across APAC made grid access the gatekeeper. The same theme runs through security and tooling, where visibility and control of every rack now decides who keeps scaling.
What is Singapore’s new 700MW Jurong Island data centre park?
DataCenterDynamics
Singapore is setting aside about 20 hectares on Jurong Island for its largest green data centre park, able to supply up to 700MW of power, with 10 percent of the land reserved for low-carbon energy sources.
What this means for your operations: A 700MW addition could lift national supply by roughly 50 percent, but the green-power conditions mean tighter efficiency and metering expectations. Plan for per-rack power visibility now, because the next tranche of capacity will be awarded to operators who can prove how every kilowatt is used.
Why has power overtaken land as APAC’s biggest data centre constraint?
Wood Mackenzie
Wood Mackenzie reports that grid access is now the defining constraint on APAC data centre growth, with more than 1,150 projects and 32GW of planned capacity pressuring regional networks.
What this means for your operations: Regulators are shifting grid-reliability duties onto operators through battery storage, curtailment management and grid-support requirements. That raises the value of granular power telemetry: intelligent PDU and branch-circuit data is what lets you manage curtailment and prove flexibility instead of guessing.
How dangerous are the new IP-KVM security flaws for out-of-band access?
The Hacker News / Eclypsium
Eclypsium disclosed nine CVEs across four low-cost IP-KVM products, the most severe rated CVSS 9.8 with no fix, allowing unauthenticated root access and BIOS-level control of connected servers.
What this means for your operations: Out-of-band access is your last line into a locked-up rack, so the device guarding it cannot be the weakest link. Enterprise KVM-over-IP with signed firmware, FIPS-grade encryption and a dedicated management VLAN is the difference between recovery and a network-wide compromise.
Is DCIM finally moving to a single pane of glass?
IoT Analytics
IoT Analytics named the merging of separate facility and IT monitoring layers into unified DCIM platforms as a leading trend at Data Centre World London 2026.
What this means for your operations: One dashboard only helps if the data feeding it is trustworthy. Standardise on intelligent PDUs and DCIM that capture power, environmental and asset data at the rack, so capacity planning and fault-finding run off one source rather than three disconnected tools.
What does Empyrion Digital’s Johor approval mean for the Singapore-Johor corridor?
Empyrion Digital
Empyrion Digital secured regulatory approval for both the Electricity Supply Agreement and Data Centre Task Force application for its first Johor campus, with first-phase readiness targeted for Q4 2026.
What this means for your operations: Johor keeps absorbing the AI capacity Singapore’s grid cannot site. If your footprint now spans both sides of the Causeway, standardise remote access and power monitoring across sites so a thin on-site team can run Johor racks with the same control as home.
The week’s lesson is that capacity is awarded to operators who can prove how power is used and keep remote control secure. eNOVA supplies the Raritan intelligent PDUs, secure KVM-over-IP and DCIM that deliver that visibility, talk to our team about rack-level power and out-of-band management.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Singapore’s 700MW Jurong Island data centre park?
It is a roughly 20-hectare green data centre park on Jurong Island that can supply up to 700MW of power, announced by Singapore’s EDB and JTC. DataCenterDynamics reports it could raise Singapore’s total data centre supply by about 50 percent, with 10 percent of the land reserved for low-carbon energy such as hydrogen and ammonia.
Why is power, not land, now the main constraint on APAC data centres?
Wood Mackenzie found that securing grid power has become harder than securing land, financing or permits across Asia-Pacific. More than 1,150 projects representing 32GW of planned capacity are straining regional grids, pushing regulators to require operators to share responsibility for grid reliability and decarbonisation.
How serious are the 2026 IP-KVM security flaws?
Firmware-security firm Eclypsium disclosed nine CVEs across four low-cost IP-KVM products, the worst rated CVSS 9.8 with no fix available. Because a KVM sits at the out-of-band control layer, a compromise gives attackers BIOS-level control that bypasses operating system security and EDR agents entirely.
What is single-pane-of-glass DCIM?
It is the consolidation of separate facility and IT monitoring tools into one DCIM platform, a trend IoT Analytics flagged at Data Centre World London 2026. For operators it means power, environmental and asset data from intelligent PDUs feed one dashboard, cutting the time to find and fix a problem.
What does Empyrion Digital’s Johor approval mean for Singapore operators?
Empyrion Digital cleared both its Electricity Supply Agreement and Data Centre Task Force application for its first Malaysian campus, targeting first phase readiness in Q4 2026. It adds to the Johor build-out absorbing AI workloads that Singapore’s power limits cannot, reinforcing the Singapore-Johor corridor as one connected market.
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