alt Hacker News> You tend to have less local resistance and there are plenty of countries with sufficient grid robustness and internet backbones.
What explains the reduced local resistance? Do Malaysian residents simply have less political power, or do Malaysian datacenters somehow solve the technical challenges that beget resistance in home countries?
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inglor_cz • today at 7:29 PM
Maybe China hasn't yet spent enough money to foment "grassroots" movements against data centers in Malaysia?
Given the globally relevant character of AI, I would be very surprised if all the anti-AI sentiment on English language social networks was organic.
Not about Malaysia specifically but this article from the Economist suggests that there is less resistance to AI outside of the rich world
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/10/22/the-surpr...