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Data centres currently account for 9.28 per cent of total electricity consumption, according to the Energy Commission (ST).

Its chief executive officer, Siti Safinah Salleh, said data-centre electricity consumption could vary with the weather, as cooling systems require more energy during hotter periods.

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00:04We expect power demand to increase in the fourth quarter of the year
00:11because there are a few data centers that are anticipated to come online
00:17or become operational somewhereabouts in November.
00:21Currently, as I mentioned just now, power demand is about 21 plus gigawatt,
00:25just over 21 gigawatt.
00:27So, we don't expect that that will increase too much in terms of peak capacity,
00:31but there will be a lot more consumption with the data centers coming in.
00:37But again, that depends on how long this weather will be prolonged overall.
00:43So, that is where we stand with regards to the power demand.
00:47Like, how much, like any percentage-wise, does that increase from the 21 on gigawatt?
00:55Let me back calculate it.
00:59I think there's an increase, but I'll check the numbers again.
01:02I think it's an increase of about 5% from last year.
01:05Talking about increase based on the data centers coming at this moment,
01:12which is 2.6 megawatt, 2,000 gigawatt.
01:16That will be the data center.
01:18But from 2001, 2000 until now, we don't have data,
01:22but it's only because of the data center demanded.
01:24Now we have the operation under the extra add-in more than 2.6 gigawatt.
01:30Okay, so 21 plus 2.6 gigawatt?
01:33No, I think so.
01:3421 is where we are currently, because from last year,
01:38I'll have to back calculate that in terms of projected demand.
01:41But roughly, I would say that it's probably around the region of 5%,
01:45but we look at the numbers again.
01:48Again, like I said, I think because of the changing landscape, right,
01:52even demand is expected to change even from our forecast,
01:55from our initial projections.
01:57Of course, we didn't anticipate hotter weather like now.
02:00We thought as typically, you know, usually the weather,
02:03the hot weather is between July up to August, roughly, yeah?
02:09And then after that, it will start to come down, to cool down, right?
02:11But as you can see, that's not the case right now.
02:13So then we rerun the numbers again.
02:15So we do expect that there will be an increase from last year,
02:18both from the consumption due to weather,
02:22but also because of data center demand coming in.
02:25So what, the 5% is a mixed consumption and also data center?
02:30The 5% is from last year's consumption to this year's consumption,
02:34total, in total.
02:36That's a figure that I'm giving you.
02:37We'll check on the actual figures that we have right now.
02:40But do you have price in the solely energy that can be used for the data center?
02:44We do.
02:45So currently, as of middle of this year,
02:48data center consumption is already about 7% of our total consumption.
02:53As of recently, actually, and I think that's also because of the hotter weather,
02:57it's actually reached almost 10%.
02:59It may change depending, again, on the weather.
03:02So as you know, when it comes to,
03:05so 9.28% is the number that I have right now on data centers most recently.
03:09As you know, you know, sometimes consumption or behavior utilization remains the same, right?
03:15Usage remains the same.
03:16But with the hotter weather,
03:17the cooling system requires a lot more energy to cool it.
03:20So that's where the consumption, therefore, increases.
03:23So this is where we're seeing that go up,
03:25even though it's not about additional data centers yet,
03:28but the consumption has gone up.
03:39That's where we're seeing a lot of data centers,
03:39So let's love this.
03:39You

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