On July 23, 2025, the Nusantara Knowledge Forum delivered a focused session in Jakarta, led by a keynote speaker and a moderator. The discussion focused on one central theme:

“Leveraging Power Quality Intelligence to Drive Better, Safer, and Resilient Data Center Infrastructure.”

This presentation highlights the importance of “Power Quality Intelligence” in data center operations, which means maximizing the use of data to monitor, analyze, and optimize power quality. The main objective is to promote energy sustainability and decarbonization.

This system is crucial due to the negative impact of power disturbances such as harmonics, voltage drops, and transients on data centers. These disturbances can reduce the efficiency of IT equipment, potentially damage hardware, increase energy consumption (e.g., higher fuel usage for generators), and elevate the risk of costly downtime, which not only causes commercial losses but also damages reputation.

With “Power Quality Intelligence”, data centers can monitor power quality in real time, identify sources of inefficiency, optimize power distribution, avoid downtime, and reduce energy consumption and operating costs. This also supports the concept of “predictive maintenance”, enabling the identification of issues before they become critical, such as identifying which cooling units are operating at 100% capacity or detecting “zombie servers” that are still consuming power without any workload.

The main challenge in its implementation is the high initial cost of making the data center fully intelligent, as well as the need to educate users about its long-term benefits. Although the government supports digitalization, the uneven implementation across regions remains an issue. However, the financial sector in Indonesia has shown strong initiative in adopting smart power monitoring systems.

Overall, “Power Quality Intelligence” is an important step toward energy efficiency, operational stability, and more environmentally friendly practices in data centers, especially given the expected increase in IT capacity usage in the future, driven by technologies like AI.

On July 16, 2025, professionals from across the data center industry gathered at the Nusantara Knowledge Forum in Jakarta. The event centered around one critical theme:

“Exploring Trends and Attitudes to Powering the Data Center in 2025.”

With power demand increasing, and the expectations around sustainability and efficiency rising, the discussions highlighted key shifts in how data centers are planned, monitored, and managed. Below is a recap of the key presentations and insights from the event. Erick Hadi, Founder of Nusantara Data Center Academy, opened the session by presenting survey results collected from 131 professionals across the global data center sector. His presentation focused on what the industry sees as top priorities when it comes to power. These include securing reliable energy, moving away from diesel backup, and upgrading infrastructure. However, one finding stood out: many operators still lack visibility into power quality metrics like harmonics, swells, and voltage dips.

Erick emphasized the need for better data visibility to drive operational decisions.

he said “You can’t fix what you don’t measure”
He also pointed out the resource gap between hyperscale data centers and small-to-mid-sized operators, who often struggle to keep up with fast-changing technologies.

The next presentation came from Bima Hendrawan, Chief Revenue Officer at PT Megaroyal IT Comindo, who shared a case study from a banking-sector data center project. The project initially planned for 32A single-phase tap-off units, but had to switch mid-execution to 63A three-phase due to increased power requirements. This meant replacing circuit breakers, changing connectors, and rewiring the system all under time pressure.

Bima highlighted how flexibility played a key role in keeping the project on track.

“While planning is important, the ability to respond quickly to unexpected changes is just as critical to success,”