{"id":241647,"date":"2026-07-27T20:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/malaysias-resource-anxiety-tests-asias-fastest-data-center-build-out"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:02:28","slug":"malaysias-resource-anxiety-tests-asias-fastest-data-center-build-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/malaysias-resource-anxiety-tests-asias-fastest-data-center-build-out","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s resource anxiety tests Asia\u2019s fastest data center build-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malaysias-resource-anxiety-tests-asias-fastest-data-center-build-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG\/JOHOR, Malaysia \u2013 After leapfrogging Singapore to become the region\u2019s fastest-growing data center hub, Malaysia is facing intensifying scrutiny as the resources debate that has complicated the industry\u2019s growth spreads to emerging Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Protests over a data center complex in Johor state\u2019s southern tip \u2014 the epicenter of the boom \u2014 were the first of their kind in the country. In Selangor, the richest and most populous state, debate about the burden on communities has become politicized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years ago, it was just about building capacity,\u201d said Cheam Tat Inn, managing director at the Malaysian arm of U.S. data center operator Equinix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG\/JOHOR, Malaysia \u2013 After leapfrogging Singapore to become the region\u2019s fastest-growing data center hub, Malaysia is facing intensifying scrutiny as the resources debate that has complicated the industry\u2019s growth spreads to emerging Asia. Protests over a data center complex in Johor state\u2019s southern tip \u2014 the epicenter of the boom \u2014 were the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}