Anxiety grows amid DC boom


WHEN neighbourhood WhatsApp groups start raising concerns about the proliferation of data centres (DCs) in their backyards, the raison d’être of this new phenomenon comes to the fore.

Why are these facilities appearing in so many towns, from Petaling Jaya to Nilai, and from Sungai Buloh to Port Dickson?

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