Opinion / #regulation
While much of the AI debate focuses on its economic potential, its expanding physical footprint tells a different story. The machines driving this revolution depend on a resource far older – and far more contested – than data or electricity.
Resource nationalism can impede energy cooperation in Southeast Asia. Asean can use a mix of carrots and sticks to deal with it.
Southeast Asian countries have struggled to stick to their promises to reduce coal use in their energy mix. High-level commitments must be translated into enforceable roadmaps, and private demand unlocked to acceelerate clean energy investments.
The initiatives in Singapore and Malaysia to protect gig workers could act as a model for emerging economies to regulate platform labour.
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