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

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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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