Government investment in inefficient storage is a moral issue, says Everpure CTO

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Matt Oostveen wants Australia to regulate the power used by storage. Singapore offers a policy precedent, while Clouded II adds a question about the environmental cost of the...

Matt Oostveen wants Australia to regulate the power used by storage. Singapore offers a policy precedent, while Clouded II adds a question about the environmental cost of the data organisations choose to keep.

Australian government departments should stop buying mechanical hard drives for data centres, according to Everpure APJ vice president and chief technology officer Matt Oostveen, who wants storage efficiency to become an explicit part of national data centre policy.

Speaking with iTWire at Everpure Accelerate Melbourne, Oostveen argued for a watts-per-terabyte requirement: a measure of how much power storage equipment draws relative to the capacity it provides.

He framed continued government investment in inefficient storage as a moral issue. Australia needs data centres to remain competitive, he said, and should demand that the infrastructure supporting that growth uses resources responsibly.

Everpure sells all-flash storage and has only ever done so because of its view that mechanical hard drives are inefficient at multiple levels. This view has only strengthened as the world calls for faster and faster AI and enterprise workflows.

However, for policymakers, the question is how to reward demonstrably lower energy use while comparing systems that deliver the same required service.

Oostveen pointed to Singapore, whose government has already connected equipment efficiency with new data centre development.

Singapore launched SS 715:2025, its standard for the energy efficiency of data centre IT equipment, in August 2025. It covers servers, storage and network equipment, with baselines aligned to international schemes such as US Energy Star and EU Ecodesign.

The Infocomm Media Development Authority says the standard aims to reduce IT equipment energy consumption by at least 30% through equipment selection and better operation, including improved utilisation.

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