According to the “New Straits Times”, Malaysia plans to launch a separate wholesale electricity market for large electricity users, including data centers. The paper quoted Rumez Abdul Harin, director of market supervision and planning at the Malaysian Energy Commission, as saying that the current “single buyer” market serving homes, factories and commercial sites will remain unchanged. He said on Tuesday that the two markets will be uniformly operated by the same operator, but details on how to connect the two will be discussed later. The move highlights that Malaysia is grappling with the potential impact of an ambitious plan — the country is vigorously promoting itself as a regional data center hub. The Southeast Asian country has already attracted artificial intelligence investment from tech giants including Oracle and Amazon; Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, said last week that it plans to invest $15 billion to expand its data center and cloud computing business in Malaysia.

According to the “New Straits Times”, Malaysia plans to launch a separate wholesale electricity market for large electricity users, including data centers. The paper quoted Rumez Abdul Harin, director of market supervision and planning at the Malaysian Energy Commission, as saying that the current “single buyer” market serving homes, factories and commercial sites will remain unchanged. He said on Tuesday that the two markets will be uniformly operated by the same operator, but details on how to connect the two will be discussed later. The move highlights that Malaysia is grappling with the potential impact of an ambitious plan — the country is vigorously promoting itself as a regional data center hub. The Southeast Asian country has already attracted artificial intelligence investment from tech giants including Oracle and Amazon; Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, said last week that it plans to invest $15 billion to expand its data center and cloud computing business in Malaysia.