Malaysia’s Data Centres Run at 40% of the Power They Reserved. That Is the Real Bottleneck.
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Malaysia took two-thirds of Southeast Asia's data centre construction, then quietly stopped approving projects. The numbers behind the pause: 603MW used against 1,276MW reserved, and a water regulator that approved fewer than one application in five.
The Data Center Cut Itself 80% and Still Lost. The Missing 500 Megawatts Is Why.
Pinal County supervisors voted 4-1 on 26 August to deny the rezoning behind La Osa. By then the project had shrunk from 59 data center buildings to 11 and published a 500 MW gas plant, a 1 GW demand cap and a 600 acre-foot water limit. It lost anyway,…