Apart from Hong Kong, Intertrust Group also has operation in Singapore Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. While all these locations were being considered, Hong Kong and Singapore were the two final options for the company's Asia data center hub. Shum said , shares the same level of political stability and infrastructure maturity, but a couple major reasons made Hong Kong a more viable choice.

One of them is the stable and cheap power supply, he said. Shum noted that their study shows the annual power cost in Hong Kong is 12 percent lower than in Singapore.