Green energy realities threaten Asia's tech dreams

AI's rise exacerbates scramble for renewable power supplies from Taiwan to Vietnam to Malaysia

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CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei Asia tech correspondents

It was just before dawn on a sweltering Taipei morning, and Pegatron Chairman T.H. Tung was still hunched over his desk analyzing energy portfolios, carbon emissions, government policies and decades of energy-related data from several countries.

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