Schneider Electric helps Taiwan Highway Bureau build a state-of-the-art green data center
Taiwan Highway Bureau’s (THB) primary missions are planning, construction, and maintenance of all the highways across the country. Meanwhile, it also helps to manage registration and monitoring of all vehicles, driving licenses, and transportation industry nationwide. With more than 6000 staff, with an aging IDC infrastructure in THB’s old headquarters was quickly becoming obsolete and could not meet the ever-growing requirements for more IT applications and data processing. Under this pretext, the IT division decided to build a new data center that could satisfy IT needs for the next 20 years to come. Green technologies from the outset “At first, we planned to renew the current IDC inside the old headquarters building, but later we gave up due to restricted power supply and insufficient stress-resistance of the current flooring, constrained by the design of the building,” pointed out Mr. Chen Shouqiang, Director of THB’s IT Division. “So we decided to build a whole new IDC inside ...