"This pioneering collaboration continues our commitment to deliver world leading industry-first breakthroughs for customers," says NiQ Lai, HKBN Co-Owner and Group CEO.

With over 1 billion internet users, China is the world’s No. 1 user of the web with an ever-increasing appetite for data. 

The installation of an intelligent power solution for the Kangsheng Data Center in Beijing will support its goal of becoming “a low carbon and green data center” while securing 99.99% power reliability.

Located in Huailai County, Hebei Province, Huailai Data Centre is situated on a 3.3-hectare (ha) land plot that forms part of a larger data center campus spanning 29.7 ha. The campus is 65 km from Beijing Central and 70 km from Beijing Capital International Airport. 

The Microsoft Beijing Campus consists of two buildings with a total building area of 148,000 square meters. The campus has now successfully passed an energy audit conducted by Haidian District, Beijing, with new annual energy savings of 27.9%. 

Companies that focus on colocation services will experience rising demand, especially those that are strategically placed to cover promising geographical regions, such as Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.