Former Chairman for SPAN, Former MP for Klang (2008 - 2022), Malaysia. FB: @charlessantiago IG: @cs.charlessantiago TikTok: @charlessantiagoklang
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JKOM exists to build unity; not to make vulnerable people public targets. When a Director-General’s message is “Jom Pantau Rohingya,” you have to ask: whose unity, exactly? @syam_ghaz
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Words from officials don’t exist in a vacuum. In a climate already thick with anti-Rohingya rhetoric, statements like this license prejudice. Harassment. Vigilantism. Collective suspicion. This is how it starts.
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History is consistent on this: dehumanisation rarely begins with mobs but with officials who choose their words carelessly or deliberately. So, stop the hate speech now!
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Thanks @rehanahbhathal for the concerns on water & noise pollution. Noise pollution is an issue involving DCs. Infact there have been one or two community protests in Johor due to excessive noise from DC. Your point well taken. Thanks much.
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YB I have always admired your stand on isssues but you forgot to mention the cost of the noise pollution, water pollution, the increased heat and dust & the quality of the air and that these are in urban areas without public consent . Overseas, people are refusing
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9/10 If Malaysia misses that opportunity, we may bear the costs while capturing only a fraction of the benefits.
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10/10 The debate should move beyond investment figures and headline announcements. The real questions are simple: Who captures the value? How many long-term jobs are created? What problems are being solved? And how much of that value remains in Malaysia?
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7/10 Comparing data centres to manufacturing is problematic. Manufacturing expands supplier networks and workforce demand. Data centres are highly automated. Many indirect jobs come from existing contractors servicing an additional client, not from large-scale new hiring.
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8/10 The strongest spillover may not be AI at all. It may be renewable energy. Data centres can create bankable demand for solar, storage and grid upgrades. This is also where meaningful job creation is most likely to occur.
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6/10 Then comes the AI argument. We are told data centres create spillovers because they enable AI ecosystems. But which Malaysian sectors today are constrained by a lack of AI computing capacity? Are we solving identified problems or building solutions first?
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4/10 Data centres create economic activity, but not all value stays in Malaysia. Landowners, contractors and utilities benefit.
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5/10 The highest-value segments, cloud services, AI, software and intellectual property, remain concentrated in the hands of global technology firms. How much value is Malaysia actually capturing?
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2/10 More importantly, data centres need power and water now, not 10-15 years from now. During El Niño and drought periods, some states already face water stress. How will Malaysia secure energy and water for households while supporting growing data centre demand?
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3/10 We are told data centres create indirect employment through the ecosystems they support. Fair enough. But when we follow the money, from land and construction to servers, cloud services and electricity, where are the large numbers of permanent Malaysian jobs?
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Let's unpack @tzafrul_aziz's take on data centre economic spillovers. A few questions for @GobindSinghDeo and @PetraJayaMP too.
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Zafrul said criticisms that data centres create relatively few jobs compared with manufacturing investments fail to take into account the broader economic spillovers the industry generates for the country.
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1/10 Nuclear! Tengku Zafrul says 🇲🇾 should consider nuclear because our neighbours are doing the same. Yet those same countries are also deploying rooftop solar, floating solar, storage and grid upgrades today. Nuclear may take 10-15 years to materialise. What's 🇲🇾 plan for now?
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"Democracy is our way of life".
At the commeration of the 39th anniversary of the June 10 uprising in SKorea against state repression.
Pix: Mothers protesting the killing of their children by the state.
Have our governments changed to protect & promote people's interest?
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Malaysia’s gas-guzzling data centre boom clashes with its clean energy goals
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Jun 7
Any party that doesn't prioritise fighting corruption at the highest levels, I will not consider them as real.
Jun 7
While Msians and Msian politicians are fixated over small enterprising and hardworking Bangladeshi and Rohingya traders doing business, large money laundering Bangladeshi tycoons have established major footprint in Malaysia. Besides the Wanted Amin Bangla, there is a Saiful Alam.
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Amnesty International’s Agnes Callamard has called on Israel to release Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, following reports that he was moved to solitary confinement in Israel’s Nafha prison.
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