Posted on 04/19/2021 2:24:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Microsoft Corporation will invest US$1 billion in Malaysia over the next five years as part of a new partnership with government agencies and local companies, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Monday (Apr 19).
The investment would be the US tech giant's biggest in Malaysia. The announcement comes after Malaysia in February gave conditional approvals for Microsoft, Google, Amazon and state telecommunications company Telekom Malaysia to build and manage hyper-scale data centres in the country and provide cloud services.
It also comes after the country saw foreign direct investments (FDI) plunge by 68 per cent last year, the biggest decline in Southeast Asia.
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In area of the world where hackers of Microsoft are literally on every street corner...definitely ironic
What a great way to avoid having to hire African Americans, right? /smirk
To pave the way for this, first, they had to get Trump out of office.
If the servers were located in the US, Microsoft would have to give the US Gov’t access to all the data.
Microsoft fought the Obama administration over email access and won because the servers were located in Ireland and Obama demanded access.
If the servers were located in the US, Microsoft would have to give the US Gov’t access to all the data.
Microsoft fought the Obama administration over email access and won because the servers were located in Ireland and Obama demanded access.
No excuse for offshoring. None.
Your data is safer offshore than in the US.
So say you.
Islam is Malaysia’s state religion. From Wikipedia:
Malaysia
Religion
61.3% Islam (official)[3]
19.8% Buddhism
9.2% Christianity
6.3% Hinduism
1.3% Chinese folk religion
1.7% Unknown
0.4% Others[4]
Bumiputeras will the only ones getting jobs...
Don’t like off-shoring, but... any data center in the US will be mostly staffed with H1B Indians.
And... at least it’s not in India or Communist China.
Surprised it’s not in Singapore though...
To make sure blacks and Hispanics dont get these jobs.....
To make sure blacks and Hispanics dont get these jobs.....
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They won’t anyways if Microsoft located it in the US.
Probably 90% Indian H1Bs and the rest, a bunch of “Americans” of Indian and Communist Chinese extraction
It’s where US elections will be ‘determined’ from now on!!
To count our computer votes no doubt.
Maybe they can import Americans to do the jobs Malaysians won’t do....
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