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Malaysia has sufficient land and water to produce more power as needed. It's just a matter of investment. If anything, the stable power demands from datacenter
by scarab92 2y ago
Malaysia has sufficient land and water to produce more power as needed.
It's just a matter of investment. If anything, the stable power demands from datacenters make business case for new builds stronger.
Also, it's not like these datacenters are serving western customers. These datacenters are far MORE costly than those in the EU/US because of the higher cooling costs, and also the latency is more than 200ms to the EU and US making them not suitable for real time use cases.
This story is nothing but a contrived whingefest, like much of the media these days.
- w00kie 2y agoI might also add that all of the big data center companies have sustainability goals that will push demand for cleaner energy, and therefore investment, in the country where they build. I work for one of the top datacenter companies in the world and we run 8TWh on 96% renewable energy.