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Electricity transmission pylons and power lines silhouetted against an orange sunset
Sustainability

There is no such thing as Malaysia's grid emission factor

The Energy Commission publishes three regional factors spanning 3.7 times — Peninsular 0.740, Sabah 0.539, Sarawak 0.199 — while a second Malaysian body publishes the same three on a marginal basis that diverges by −24% in one region and +55% in another. The Philippines publishes two values for one grid in one year.

12 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
A steel transmission pylon carrying power lines across a pale sky at dusk.
Sustainability

Nvidia Signed Eight Australian Partners for 2GW. The Country Runs on 1.6.

More than doubling a national computing load by 2027, spread across eight balance sheets. No site list, no phasing and no grid connection dates have been published.

11 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Sustainability

Google Picked 16 Asia-Pacific Climate AI Teams. No Funding Was Disclosed.

Three months of mentorship and access to five specialist environmental models, starting with a Singapore bootcamp. Access is the meaningful transfer here, and it is not a grant.

8 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
Overhead transmission lines fanning across flat open farmland at sunset, with three lattice pylons on the horizon and an industrial plant beyond them
Sustainability

Texas Froze a 474-Gigawatt Data-Centre Queue on a 91-Gigawatt Grid

Abbott has halted new ERCOT interconnection agreements and ordered an audit of the queue. Three recent cases show what happens when a queue position is made to cost something.

3 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
A small corrugated-metal geothermal wellhead building in open country, with a tall plume of steam venting from its stack
Sustainability

Google Bought 396 Megawatts of Geothermal That Arrives in 2028

Cape Station in Utah comes online in 2028, with an option on 600 more megawatts through June 2030. Geothermal runs at a constant rate, which is the shape of data-centre demand.

3 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
A yellow tracked excavator standing on a mound of bare churned earth at a cleared construction site
Sustainability

Southeast Asia's First Data-Centre Protest Was About Dust, Not Water

Nikkei reports data-centre opposition spreading across Asia. The region's first protest was in Johor in February, and the grievance there was dust and proximity rather than water.

2 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
Rows of ceramic insulators and overhead conductors at an electricity substation, with autumn trees behind
Sustainability

Eight Data-Centre Turbines, 2.5 Million People and US$53m to US$99m a Year

Data centres are installing on-site gas turbines to bypass multi-year grid connection queues. That makes the emissions the mechanism of the build-out rather than a side effect of it.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
An electric scooter plugged into a row of kerbside charging posts, its cable running across the pavement
Sustainability

Four Fifths of Yuma's Battery Swaps Are Still for Its Own Parent

A captive network is a good way to reach scale and a poor place to stay. The external share, not the swap count, is what separates a network from an in-house fuelling operation.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
Conventional solar panels mounted on a tiled residential roof above a wooded hillside, illustrating a report on Tesla discontinuing its Solar Roof tile.
Sustainability

Tesla Installed About 3,000 Solar Roofs In Seven Years, And Has Now Stopped

At its peak the company was completing 21 to 32 installations a week, more than 95 per cent short of the original target. Tesla has told installers it will supply conventional panels instead, concluding the tiles were not financially viable.

23 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Rows of ground-mounted solar panels in an open field, illustrating a report on Singapore approving 900MW of solar imports from Johor.
Sustainability

Singapore Will Import 900MW Of Solar From The Johor It Competes With For Power

Two conditional approvals cover 300MW to Sembcorp and 600MW to a Ditrolic subsidiary, from solar and storage in Johor, with commercial operation around 2029. Johor is also where Malaysia's data centre build is concentrated.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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