Research

Open access, always.

Everything we publish is free to read, free to quote and free to reuse. There is no paywall and there will not be one.

Our work follows one rule: one country, one mechanism, one question at a time. Regional overviews are easy to write and hard to use. We would rather answer a narrow question properly.

• 29 July 2026

  Who Waters the Cloud

  Energy and institutional frictions in Malaysia's data centre development

• 25 July 2026

  Twenty-one years, seven reviews

  Malaysia's CRESS asks corporate buyers to sign twenty-one-year contracts around a charge that can be reset every three years. The allocation of that risk has not been explained.

• 25 July 2026

  The constraint moved

  Johor is rejecting roughly a third of data centre applications while Malaysia contracts gigawatts of new supply. The two facts are not in tension. They describe a change in what these projects are actually competing for.