OVHCloud opens new Sydney data centre

OVHcloud has opened a new data centre location in Sydney that will be powered by its latest water-cooling technology. 

This will mark OVHcloud’s third data centre location in Sydney and follows openings in India and Singapore in the past 14 months.

The Sydney expansion forms part of a network of six data centres across Asia Pacific, offering open, trusted and sovereign cloud solutions for businesses looking to expand in the region.

Deploying its proprietary water cooling technology with cloud infrastructure optimised for mission-critical workloads, the new data centre will sustainably meet the growing demand for high compute cloud solutions.

OVHcloud’s high-performance Scale dedicated servers, launched for the first time in Australia and powered by the latest AMD and Intel processors, will be available at the new data centre to bring more compute power.

“The increased popularity of emerging technologies such as 5G, edge computing and generative AI [artificial intelligence] has triggered an influx of demand for high computing performance, but many organisations are struggling to balance this need whilst keeping carbon footprints top of mind,” OVHCloud CEO Michel Paulin said.

“As a pioneer in water cooling technology for more than 20 years, we are confident in our ability to assist organisations in powering their businesses, and their ESG goals as well.” 

OVHcloud’s newest data centre features an integrated water cooling system that is built into a vertical rack designed to facilitate cooling at the server level, eliminating the need for air conditioning in server rooms, with significant benefits in costs and environmental impact. 

At the same time, the design also allows precise and efficient cooling, so that it only requires a single glass of water to cool an OVHcloud server as the water is cooled and circulated in a closed loop.    

These advancements have powered the group to achieve exceptional sustainability metrics, boasting a PUE as low as 1.29 and a WUE (water usage effectiveness) of 0.30l/kWh. 

By manufacturing its own racks and servers, OVHcloud has established an integrated industrial model with a CUE (carbon usage effectiveness) of 0.18. 

“With Australia as one of the most densely served economies by data centres per capita, this marks a pivotal development for Australian businesses as more organisations consider the sustainability of data centres on their radar,” said OVHCloud APAC vice president and general manager Terry Maiolo.