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SEPANG: A study on the water consumption patterns of all data centres in the country is currently being done by the national water regulator to better oversee how these facilities use the resource.

There are close to a hundred of them, bobbing along the surface of the ocean, quietly collecting information thousands of people use every day. Now, that crucial data is in peril — and its loss could ...