SD Guthrie Bhd, the world’s biggest palm oil planter by acreage, previously flagged plans to use some of its lower-yielding land for industrial development to tap the data centre boom. (File pic)KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is expected to attract more interest as a data centre hub following the outbreak of the US-Iran war, according to SD Guthrie Bhd, giving the palm oil giant and the country’s biggest landowner an opportunity to capitalise on the boom.
Even before the Middle East conflict, Malaysia was drawing data centre investment from companies including Alphabet Inc’s Google, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp.
Over the weekend, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group Corp chose locations in the country for US$50 billion in technology investments.
