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- AI Boom Is Turning Malaysia’s Palm Oil Estates Into Data Centers
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
- AI boom fuels Malaysia’s palm oil estates transformation into data centers
Once home to Malaysia’s rainforests and orangutans before being cleared for palm oil, these plantations are now being repurposed to meet the world’s growing demand for artificial intelligence data centers
- Malaysia’s palm oil estates earmarked for data centres amid AI boom
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 New AI Frontier: Palm Oil Estates Pivot to Data Centres
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
- 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 centre hubs
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 transforms Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data centers
Major palm oil firms are reserving thousands of hectares for data centers and solar farms in Malaysia
- Malaysia Turns Palm Oil Plantations into AI Data Centers and Solar . . .
Data centers are notorious energy hogs, with AI training models consuming electricity equivalent to small cities In Malaysia, the solution lies in integrating solar power farms on former palm estates, a strategy highlighted in a the Star article
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