#data centres Berita
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Two Sessions: How are China’s local gov’ts responding to GDP growth drive?
While they bet big on artificial intelligence and product carbon-footprint tracking, more action is needed to drive greener consumption, experts say.
On the first World Glacier Day, experts urge Asia's businesses and policymakers to act this decade to slow glacier loss and ice melt, which remains “out of sight, out of mind” despite the region's extreme vulnerability to rising sea levels.
There are concerns that Malaysia's data centre boom will strain its water resources, spurring investor demand for water risks disclosures – especially in the technology sector. Firms must start valuing water risks and engaging suppliers.
Energi
Tariff wars may strengthen China’s clean energy supply chain ties with developing nations: GIC
Despite near-term volatility, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund sees closer trade ties between China and developing countries as a long-term tailwind for investments into clean energy technologies.
#data centres Opini
China's DeepSeek demonstrates that AI can be trained in a more efficient way and has enormous implications for Big Tech, which will be pressured to justify efforts to reduce climate impact.
Energi
Power wheeling can drive corporate investments and advance Indonesia’s renewable energy goals
Allowing private firms to sell clean power directly to consumers via PLN's networks could help the country meet its targets without burdening the national budget and to let the state-owned electricity utility focus on grid modernisation.
Karbon & Iklim
Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it
Since the release of ChatGPT, the world has seen a surge in investment and use of artificial intelligence. The social and economic impacts of this boom have provoked reactions, but the environmental costs have received far less attention.
Indonesia's soaring post-pandemic digital economy is being powered mainly by coal. The archipelago needs to find ways to decouple rapid data centre growth from carbon emissions.
#data centres Video
Bangunan Ramah
Getting our urban environment to net-zero
Studio EB
Our urban infrastructure is responsible for almost 40 per cent of global carbon emissions. Climate solutions need to include the biggest energy guzzlers, clean energy and retrofitting old buildings.
#data centres Rilis Pers
First Gen Corporation
First Gen, Globe renew clean energy partnership to advance net zero ambition
