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Malaysia Needs to Power to Stay Ahead in Data Centres

Linda Zeng, Senior Power & Renewables Analyst, BMI

19-Nov-25 08:30

Malaysia Needs to Power to Stay Ahead in Data Centres

Asia is in the middle of a rapid data centre boom, driven by accelerating digitalisation, cloud demand and the spillover from Singapore’s capacity constraints.  Malaysia has been a beneficiary of this but what are the bottlenecks we face? 

Linda Zeng, Senior Power & Renewables Analyst, BMI gives us that answer and some solutions so we can stay ahead of the competition.



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Produced by: Agnes Ong

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning, Elaine Boey, Philip See


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Categories:  technology

Tags:  power supply,  data centre boom,  data centres,  artificial intelligence,  digitalisation, 


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