New Straits Times reports Malaysia plans a separate wholesale power market for
large users, including data centers. Rumaizi Abdul Halim, market regulation and
planning director at the Malaysian Energy Commission, said the existing
"single-buyer" market serving households, factories and commercial customers
will remain unchanged. Both markets will be run by the same operator; specifics
on how they will interface will be discussed later. The move is framed as part
of Malaysia's push to become a regional data center hub. Tech investors active
in Malaysia include Oracle and Amazon in AI; Google announced a $15 last week
billion investment to expand its Malaysian data-center and cloud capacity.
