Malaysia is expected to expand its data centre capacity more than tenfold, ranking alongside India and Japan among the region’s fastest-growing AI infrastructure markets.
Insurance could help reduce uncertainty around accident and performance risks, but KIRI says many early-stage technologies remain difficult to underwrite.
Regional losses of US$8.7bn in H1 came in at about a quarter of the 10-year average, but the reinsurer says strengthening El Niño conditions leave Japan, Korea, Greater China and Australia exposed through...
The figures cover losses from typhoons Maysak and Bavi and wider July flooding, with insurers having already advanced CNY2.89bn (US$427m) to policyholders across Zhejiang, Guangxi and Hubei.
