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At the Semiconductor Sustainability Summit 2025, industry leaders said Malaysia’s push to double its global chip share could deepen electricity and water pressures unless fabs overhaul how they source, use and conserve energy.
Over 70 per cent of organisations are investing more than 10 per cent of their capital expenditure in low-carbon initiatives as digitalisation and automation take centre stage.
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Recycling e-waste can ease the demand for extracting new minerals, but pollution and unsafe recovery practices pose risks to Southeast Asia’s informal recyclers. The greener solution, says CH Toh of Arkiva, is to repair and reuse our devices.
The city-state will generate no more than 10 per cent of its energy from solar by 2050, and is exploring geothermal, biomethane and regional energy-sharing to decarbonise, Singapore's energy minister said. The country is also planning a "low-carbon" data centre park – its first since a moratorium on data centres ended in 2022.
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