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Malaysia wants data centres to report their chips and power use
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Malaysia's trade minister, Johari Abdul Ghani, said on Thursday that some firms rented data centre space to import GPUs legally, then shipped them abroad. The planned law would make operators disclose how many GPUs they import, where their sites are and who runs them, and pay for all electricity capacity they reserve. Malaysia has approved 117 data centre projects, and 55 are already running.
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