Malaysia’s gas-fired power capacity is set to skyrocket. The cause: data centers

Malaysia is expected to add 6–8 gigawatts of gas-fired power by 2030 to address growing electricity consumption driven by demand from data centres, an industry official said.

The country is expected to see the fastest surge in data centre power demand in southeast Asia, with its share of electricity consumed by data centres in the region to triple to 21% by 2027 from 7% in 2022, a joint report in May by Bain & Co with others including Google and Temasek showed.

Rising gas demand could see Malaysia...