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 is transforming Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data . . . Malaysia’s major palm oil companies are increasingly redirecting portions of their vast land holdings toward the development of industrial parks equipped with data centres and solar power facilities The strategy aims to meet the rapidly growing space and energy needs of the global artificial intelligence sector By 2035, data centres in Malaysia may require at
AI boom turning Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data centres Palm oil companies are earmarking some of the vast tracts of land they own for industrial parks studded with data centres and solar panels, the latter meant to feed the insatiable energy appetites
Malaysia’s New AI Frontier: Palm Oil Estates Pivot to Data . . . Palm oil estates, controlling more private land than any other sector, saw an opportunity Why Palm Oil Producers Are Entering the AI Race Data centres are “power and land hogs,” expected to require at least 5 gigawatts of electricity by 2035, or nearly 20% of Malaysia’s current generation capacity