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Hydrotreated vegetable oil, derived entirely from waste-based feedstock, successfully substituted diesel in a pilot project at BDC’s data centre campuses. The biofuel met all performance and emissions targets.
SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics are among the world's fastest-growing AI revenue companies on the back of surging demand for high-bandwidth memory and AI chips. But such chips consume up to five times more energy per gigabyte to produce than standard memory, analysts warn.
AI has epoch-making potential, but its data centres are being built on the thirst of those who already have the least, academics argue.
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Indonesia’s new capital Nusantara and the Malaysian states of Perak and Pahang were raised as examples by industry leaders. Thai and Indoneisan policymakers also said that current tariff structures are being reconsidered to cope with rising water demand.
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