Taiwan’s AI ambitions hit a wallBy Romain BlachierTaiwan no longer wants to merely manufacture the chips that power artificial intelligence (AI). Now layer AI data centers on top. Ninety-seven percent of Taiwan’s energy is imported. TSMC alone eats up close to 10 percent of all the electricity Taiwan generates — and some projections put that figure at 24 percent by 2030. The underlying logic is hard to argue with: Why should a data center get a free pass that no steel mill or petrochemical plant would ever receive?

Source: Taipei Times March 24, 2026 17:59 UTC