Taipei Times
English-language daily newspaper published in Taiwan by the Liberty Times Group.
Taipei Times, an English-language Taiwanese daily, is Lowdown's source for a 5 August 2026 committee vote on Taiwan's energy self-generation rule, not a party to it.
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Taipei Times is an English-language daily newspaper in Taiwan, published by the Liberty Times Group primarily for an international and expatriate readership seeking Taiwanese news in English rather than Mandarin-language coverage. It is Lowdown's source, not a subject, for coverage of Taiwan's energy-generation legislation.
Its 5 August 2026 report covered the Legislative Yuan Economics Committee's preliminary approval of an amendment obliging large power users, including data-centre operators, to install their own generation or storage capacity for new facilities . As reported, non-compliance would carry fines of NT$150,000 to NT$750,000, though the amendment leaves the size threshold that triggers the duty to later regulation. Lowdown treats Taipei Times as an English-language secondary source on Taiwanese policy, not a party to the legislation it describes.