Grid Bottlenecks Could Slow Southeast Asia’s Power Demand Surge

Data centers, electric vehicles (EVs), and green industrial clusters are expected to lead to about 100 terawatt-hours (TWh) of incremental power demand in Southeast Asia by 2030, but slower grid infrastructure development could slow the rollout, a report by Bain & Company and Standard Chartered showed on Monday. The incremental demand from data centers/AI, green industrial parks and EV infrastructure is enormous, with the expected growth tripled compared to about 30 TWh in additional demand in t...