Johnson Controls has joined the Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed 2.0 at the National University of Singapore, a programme that will examine AI-ready data centre systems in tropical conditions.
The move comes as Singapore expands data centre capacity while trying to limit the impact of rising power, water and land use.
STDCT 2.0 brings together industry and academic partners to test data centre and AI technologies in a live tropical environment.
Austin Domenici, President of Data Centre Solutions at Johnson Controls, said the industry needed to rethink how data centre infrastructure is designed as AI demand grows.
Instead, the testbed is intended to examine how cooling, controls, power and other systems work together under local operating conditions.