Ringgit loans for data centres – boon or bane?


A data centre tsunami is apparently hitting the country, but are these centres, many being developed by Silicon Valley juggernauts such as Amazon.com, Google and Microsoft, bringing in the US dollars?

Are they being funded through ringgit borrowings locally?

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