Power shift: DCs eye self-generation


THE recent suggestion by the government to the vast number of data centres (DCs) opening up in Malaysia to generate their own electricity could have interesting repercussions.

For one, it could mean that aside from the vast DC structures propping up in many places, there could now be gas-fired power plants next to them.

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