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 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 large-scale solar farms Palm Oil Giants With
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 Is Turning Malaysia’s Palm Oil Estates Into Data . . . 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 center boom