LONDON, United Kingdom – 31 July 2024 - Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large-scale, network dense, carrier and cloud neutral, multi-customer data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific, welcomes the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) recognition of its Hong Kong data centre as the first - and currently only - data centre in Hong Kong fully OCP Ready™ v1.
OCP Ready™ data centres offer many advantages for Machine Learning and AI applications thanks to the synergies between the OCP guidelines and the high-density power, cooling and physical infrastructure demanded by these deployments. The flexibility of the installed infrastructure also enables Global Switch Hong Kong to provide super-high rack deployment for chipsets that are unable to be supported by air.
The OCP Ready™ programme was launched in 2018 to help organisations find data centres where OCP IT equipment can be deployed at scale, with ease. Global Switch Hong Kong joins an elite list of data centres, including Global Switch’s own Amsterdam East facility, which have received this coveted certification. The data centre achieved Optimum ratings in several key categories including power and cooling.
Global Switch’s Hong Kong data centre is located in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, developed by Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks to help maintain the region’s position as one of the world’s leading economic centres. With 70,545 sq m of world class infrastructure services and 100MVA of utility power, it is Hong Kong’s largest carrier and cloud neutral data centre, enabling Asia-Pacific customers to optimise their IT infrastructures and meet their business needs. The data centre has also achieved a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum Rating and is targeting the Hong Kong Green Building Council’s BEAM Plus New Build Gold rating.
Global Switch Hong Kong passed a validation process and earned the certification by complying with OCP's guidelines and industry best practices for high-density power, cooling and physical infrastructure, optimised for OCP recognised hardware. The principles of the OCP standard complement Global Switch’s own approach to flexible design for high density and liquid cooled deployments and prove their commitment to innovation, efficiency and sustainability.
Eric Liu, Managing Director, Global Switch Hong Kong said: “To echo the theme of this year's OCP China Day, Global Switch is committed to providing smart, sustainable and scalable services to our customers. We are proud of the recent recognition of our Hong Kong data centre by the OCP. With our Open Computing Design, our customers can enjoy the most efficient way to deliver their data centre deployment. As the home of the top three China cloud providers, Global Switch Hong Kong also enables our customers to immediately access these clouds just metres away.”
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About OCP
The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a global collaborative Community of hyperscale data center operators, telecom, colocation providers and enterprise IT users, working with the product and solution vendor ecosystem to develop open innovations deployable from the cloud to the edge. The OCP Foundation is responsible for fostering and serving the OCP Community to meet the market and shape the future, taking hyperscale-led innovations to everyone. Meeting the market is accomplished through addressing challenging market obstacles with open specifications, designs and emerging market programs that showcase OCP-recognized IT equipment and data center facility best practices. Shaping the future includes investing in strategic initiatives and programs that prepare the IT ecosystem for major technology changes, such as AI & ML, optics, advanced cooling techniques, composable memory and silicon. OCP Community-developed open innovations strive to benefit all, optimized through the lens of impact, efficiency, scale and sustainability.
For more information visit: www.opencompute.org
About Global Switch
Global Switch is a leading owner, operator and developer of large-scale, carrier and cloud neutral, multi-customer data centres in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Founded in 1998, Global Switch has a proven business model, demonstrable track record and is one of the highest credit rated data centre companies in the world with investment grade credit ratings from Fitch, Moody’s and S&P Global Ratings.
Global Switch is a vital strategic partner for customers that require secure and resilient data centre services with scalable capacity and a high-level customer service. The Company's focus is on highly resilient, central, low latency, network dense locations in prime city centre locations and internet hubs close to its customers on the edge of financial and business districts. Global Switch’s data centres operate exclusively in the Tier I markets of Europe and Asia-Pacific to Tier III or higher and currently total around 428,000 sq m (4,600,000 sq ft) of floor space and are occupied by a broad range of customers, global and national, large and small including government organisations, financial institutions, enterprises, global systems integrators, telecommunication carriers, cloud and managed service providers and other hosting businesses.
