Nadia Ahmad Samdin on Digital Infrastructure Bill

The infrastructure underpinning the next chapter of Singapore’s economy will increasingly include data centres, cloud and compute, said MP Nadia Ahmad Samdin in parliament on Wednesday (Oct 7). Noting that Singapore had previously paused to ask what sustainable data centre growth should look like, she called for that same discipline in the regulatory framework going forward. She spoke on several areas - not just achieving better power usage effectiveness, but better overall resource outcomes; not simply greener data centres, but infrastructure planned with the precincts and systems around it; not merely greater capacity, but actual utilisation that delivers lasting value.