Malaysia is looking to data centers to boost its economy, but experts warn of risks

Winson Lau always has emergency status plans. However, the information centers were not ready.

Lau increases water and electricity to operate developing exports in Malaysia’s Johor province, including a kaleidoscope in the albino fish, including albino fish, including albino fish. During a cut, its emergency plans are a system of cleansing system with cleansing bacteria and an alarm system through kind bacteria.

However, these measures can not compete with giant, strength and thirst information centers built in Johora. The year, in 2019, at any time, it is a way that nothing is at least 1.6 Gigawatt Information Center, according to a report broadcast in April, it makes the fastest growing data central market in Southeast Asia.

Data centers are large, window buildings filled with the racks of computers in need of many electricity. To prevent a lot of warming, they rely on energy intensive air conditioning systems using stuck water. Tech companies are used by artificial intelligence systems to work more than 5 gigavatts of future facilities in Malaysia by 2035, can increase more than 5 gigavatts in Malaysian Kenanga Investment Bank. This is more than half of the renewable ability of Malaysia in 2023.

More than 95% of the energy available for Malaysia in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency, fossil fossil fossils. The fifth largest exporter of liquefied natural gas in the country. Prime Minister Abraham said in September, with the planned renewable projects, the country continues to be “confident in energy surplus” and continues to export.

However, Lau does not know the chances of the host work competing against foreign-funded behemots for energy. Without information centers, Malaysia, which lasts 300,000 points, which lasts 30 minutes last year and more than $ 300,000, is sensitive to power breaks because of the death of 300,000 fish. It is concerned that the data centers will yield longer.

To survive, it is moving in Thailand and now discovers potential places for a new fish farm.

“The large data center has a lack of income and power,” he said. “It will be crazy.”

Expenses on expenses

Malaysia bets on the risk of potential economic growth from data centers. After a roped cross, the industry is shrinking in the late 1990s after the Industry Asian financial crisis. Since then, the average income trap. Data centers, the government hopes, will modernize its economy and indirectly create thousands of high-paying jobs.

However, experts will instill in Malaysia and others, and others will be transformative opportunities for information centers such as India, such as Vietnam and India for the billion dollars of Tech giants. less work than they promise. Most data centers, the larger American non-profit non-profit non-profit non-profit non-commercial report provides a higher number of 200 to 50 permanent jobs.

Some experts, such as the use of electricity and water and Sofia Scasserra, some experts investigating digital economies in Amsterdam, have used the populations to be rich in populations, they have used reserves in poor countries. He enriched the Colonial Spain, but compared the removal of information to silver mine in Bolivia, which does not put anything for Latin America.

“They make information in the same way. The information does not leave tax (behind),” he said.

Indeed, only a small part of the power of the Malaysia’s data center is really for Malaysian users. They serve East Asia, China and Europe through the submarine cables that are in favor of the world. And information centers themselves work with technological giants such as foreign companies as American Equinix and Microsoft, as well as Chinese rival GDS Holdings, Alibaba.

These data centers are also in the front line of the EU race between the United States and China. Shortly after the Office, US President Joe Biden’s management, such as NVIDIA, as NVIDIA, offers new rules to deprive a strategy to deprive a strategy to deprive a strategy to deprive the AI ​​technology through data centers. The places love southeast Asia and the Middle East. If the Trump management does not enter into force, it is not clear that GDS Holdings will keep the announcement of more than 18% of the announcement.

Fill the gap

So far, artificial intelligence is driving hunger for more data centers, technological companies, Rangu Salgame, Singapore Chairman and CEO of Princeton Digital Group, Johor The megawat builds a site. Data centers, which are larger than 40 megawatts, usually the size of seven football fields – 36,000 American homes, have enough power to the data center service provider’s broadcasting centers.

Over time, it is expensive to build rich nations in rich peoples with more information centers, but has already built a more information center than other countries where the lands are high. Log in Malaysia, cheap soil, no longer power capacity and tax breaks. According to Cushman and Wakefield in the first half of 2024, the country was the fastest growing data center market in the first half of 2024 in the Asia Pacific. This is the eighth largest data center market by China, India, Japan and Australia, China, India, Japan and Australia, in China, India, Japan and Australia during accounting for projects in Malaysia.

In terms of global-scale Malaysian operating capacity – is smaller than Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin – but the research is on the way to be among the top 10 market in Pritesh Swamy, data centers in Asia for real estate company Cushman & Wakefield.

“We talk about an area that really grows in a pace where the world has never seen anywhere,” Salgame said.

The next door of Malaysia is Singapore, which stopped the construction of new data centers in 2019. The moratorium was concerns that the energy-fear infrastructure strains limited sources of small country. In 2019, data centers consume 7% of the total electricity of the city-state, which aims to reach Net-Zero emissions from net-zero waste since 2050 since 2050. .

Meanwhile, the Malaysian cavity took a step to attract more than $ 31 billion to fill – investment in 2023 – investment for 7024 per 2024. Johor already has more than 22 hectares of foreign data center for more than 22 hectares. Although all of the information centers work, it is equivalent of about 40 football fields.

Concerns about power and water deficiency

Anonymous information centers outside. However, these can be determined by thorny wire fences, CCTV cameras and patrol safety officers with signs of Telle Tale. Another place, the construction machines operated in construction machines and construction machines change the picture in the drowsy province.

Salgame said that the information centers accelerated the growth of clean energy and accelerated experts from the Institute of Putra Adhiguna, which the Institute of Internal Billing Incorporation, the future demand, the future requirement has become difficult.

“Add information centers on it, it is simply more difficult,” he said.

Tropical Malaysia, first of all, the founder of digital trends, which requires more water and power for cooling, and a research company, which is chosen by information centers, which requires more water and power for cooling. He said that they have moved to new countries after being found to be “empty” of the promises of economic growth. The new sun or wind farms can be built faster than other energy forms, and a large number of electricity should be made from the departure of information centers.

“These great technological companies are trying to distract you from simple math.”

Malaysia information centers think that the energy requirement is “important”, “Information Center Electricity” is “The main player in the digital ecosystem”, Malaysia Investment and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz. He added that Malaysian information centers have been writing the rules of efficiency and have a policy that allows direct manufacturers to receive fresh energy.

However, in the future, the concerns between residents on potential water deficiency in the future are increasing the concerns of other developing countries like Chile. Malaysia, like most of Southeast Asia, in 2022 According to the UN climate change report, it is at risk of extreme air, including drought. Francis Hutchinson, an analyst in ISEAS-Yusof in Singapore, said that Johor’s last violations and new stressors can increase the crisis, like a growing population and water parks.

“Water is more water than power,” he said.


AP Writer Eileen NG, Kuala Lumpur in Providence, Malaysia and Matt O’brien, Rhode Island contributed to this report.


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