Malaysia Turns Palm Oil Plantations into AI Data Centers and . . . Malaysia is transforming oil palm plantations into data centers and solar farms to meet AI and cloud computing demands, driven by environmental scrutiny on the palm oil industry With $34 billion in investments from tech giants like Google and Microsoft, it aims to lead Southeast Asia's digital infrastructure However, challenges include energy shortages, water usage, and limited local
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
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