Johnson Controls joins tropical data centre efficiency testing initiative
Building solutions firm Johnson Controls joined the Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed 2 0 project in Singapore to test cooling infrastructure for artificial intelligence computing facilities in humid environments
Johnson Controls has announced its participation in the Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed (STDCT) 2.0, hosted at the National University of Singapore (NUS). This initiative aims to evaluate next-generation AI and data centre technologies in a live tropical environment, addressing the unique challenges presented by high temperatures and humidity.
By contributing its industry-leading thermal management technologies, smart controls, engineering expertise, and operational experience, Johnson Controls aims to advance infrastructure designs that enable AI at scale with greater efficiency and lower resource consumption. The collaboration is part of a broader initiative to transform Jurong Island into a living testbed for next-generation, low-carbon, and AI-ready infrastructure.
Johnson Controls' integrated portfolio of thermal management technologies is designed to optimise the entire thermal ecosystem, improve efficiency, and create additional computing capacity from existing power and infrastructure resources. This approach has the potential to reduce non-IT energy consumption by up to 50% compared to conventional cooling methods, while also converting waste heat into productive cooling and enabling up to 97 MW of additional AI computing capacity from existing power infrastructure.
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