Traditional infrastructures refer to facilities such as highway, railway, bridge, tunnel, airport, port, electrical grid, water supply system and so on. The new infrastructures today are more virtualized and digitalized, such as 5G network, Internet of Things and data centres. While a digital economy is built on data, the data storage in Hong Kong has grown from 2 Zettabytes in 2011 to 41 Zettabytes today, which is 20 times of the past data storage, and it is expected to reach 181 Zettabytes in 2026. Although Hong Kong lags far behind Singapore in terms of new infrastructure development, the demand for data centres still remains strong.

Learn more from the full article (in Chinese only) written by Kenny Siu, Senior Advisor of AEC Group, published on Sing Pao on 30 May.