Prestasi Sawit Malaysia MPOBAI boom is turning Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data centres The rush is partly a spillover from Singapore, where a years-long moratorium on new centres forced operators to look north 19 11 2025 (Business Times), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia’s palm oil giants, long-blamed for razing rainforests, fuelling toxic haze and driving orangutans to the brink of extinction, are recasting
Malaysia’s palm oil estates earmarked for data centres amid . . . Once a colonial-era crop, palm oil has grown into a global consumer staple found in nearly half of all supermarket products To keep up with rising demand, palm companies turned to deforestation, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia, where vast stretches of tropical rainforest have been cleared to make way for plantations
Malaysia’s Palm Oil Giants Pivot to AI Data Centres with . . . Malaysia’s palm oil giants, once criticised for deforestation, are transforming into key players in the country’s surging data centre sector Companies like SD Guthrie Bhd, the world’s largest palm oil planter, are converting thousands of hectares of low-yield plantations into industrial parks equipped with hyperscale data centres and
AI boom turning Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data centres Malaysia also needs space to house server farms, and palm oil giants control more land than any other private entity in the country The country has been at the heart of a regional data centre boom
Malaysia’s New AI Frontier: Palm Oil Estates Pivot to Data . . . Malaysia’s palm oil titans are undergoing an unexpected transformation — from climate villains to key players in Southeast Asia’s AI data centre boom Their vast estates, once associated with deforestation and haze, are now being earmarked for solar-powered tech parks designed to attract global hyperscalers