Malaysia’s data centre boom: How it affects jobs, electricity and water
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 — Streaming a video, making an online payment, shopping online or using an AI-powered service involves data being stored and processed somewhere.Much of...
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Much of that happens in data centres — facilities that house computer servers and other equipment used to store, process and transmit data.
Malaysia is seeing growing investment in data centres and cloud computing as demand for digital services and artificial intelligence increases.
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- Sep 9, 2026
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- Sep 10, 2026
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