High investment, low job creation

By JAGDEV SINGH SIDHU

THE cat is out of the bag when it was disclosed that the massive surge of data centre investments in Malaysia has not lived up to expectations.

The headline investment number is impressive.

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DataCentres , ForeignInvestment , JobCreation , AIInfrastructure , Overcapacity , EnergyWater , InvestmentIncentives , DigitalEconomy

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