But these measures can’t compete with the gigantic, power-guzzling and thirsty data centers being built in Johor. The province is on track to have at least 1.6 gigawatts of data centers at any given ...

Malaysia recognises the "substantial" energy demand from data centres but maintains optimism about Johor emerging as a "data ...

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia (AP) — Winson Lau has always had ... may be overstating data centers' transformative capabilities that also come at a price: Data centers gobble up land, water and ...

That’s costly to build in rich nations like the U.S., which over time has built more data centers than any other country but where land comes at a high price. Enter Malaysia, with its ...

But experts worry that Malaysia, and others like Vietnam, Indonesia and India vying for billion-dollar investments from tech giants, may be overstating data centers’ transformative capabilities that ...