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Congratulations to Malaysia for being considered as a location for Google data farm in the region.

Wrote AFP,

“They want to make their presence felt in Malaysia. It will be a big boost for our ICT (information and communications technology) industry,” Abdullah told Malaysian journalists at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

“I was told that Malaysians formed the highest group of Google users in Southeast Asia,” Abdullah said according to The Star daily.

Earlier reports here said that Google was looking at Malaysia, India or Vietnam to establish the world’s biggest server farm — a cluster of powerful computers used to store data.

I was had a online discussion with a telecom insider and suggested that maybe the Singapore government might just give Google one of it southern islands to build the data farm.

Pedra Branca, not one of the Southern islands, will be a mocking choice if Singapore did win their international legal tussle with Malaysia.

However, the telecom insider said it was very unlikely that Google even considered Singapore as a location although it is deem as one of the more technologically advanced nations in the region.

The reason?

Problem with a server farm is that the local government will want to do “wiretaps” - interceptions.

  And they will host lots of things that might be illegal in the country

  Good thing about Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor has a law that clarifies all that.