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 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
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