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International Business Times
International Business Times
Science
Satish Cheney

Energy-hungry Singapore Eyes Deserts, Forest For Renewables

Map showing SunCable's Australia-Asia PowerLink renewable energy project from Australia's Northern Territory to Darwin and Singapore via a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system. (Credit: AFP)

With huge data centres set to drive up already outsized energy demand, the tiny city-state of Singapore is looking to Australia's deserts and Malaysia's rainforests for clean power.

This week Australia announced a massive solar farm that it hopes will eventually offer two gigawatts (GW) of power to Singapore via undersea cable.

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