Thank you for this very helpful post. I am insipred to reflect on my often muddled and repetitive writing style, and then improve.

Do you know if the Centre for Biomedical Ethics was consulted?

I am trying to ask. I will PM you when I get an answer. 

It would also be very interesting to know how the university and IRB approval worked here. 

I will try to investigate too.

Please feel free to email me to keep in touch. Or add me on linkedin.

Clarification: They commissioned the YLL School of Medicine, particularly the Life Science Institute, to validate the idea of using CL1 to build datacentres. Of course they won't commission a centre for bioethics to do that.

Excuse me for posting this two times:

By the way, I am a PhD student at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics under the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, which is commissioned to be in charge of the validation of the idea in Singapore. I am not sure what I, or even our centre can do (personally, I didn't know this was happening until I saw this post). But if anyone can think of anything I should do, let me know. (if you think there might be infohazard, feel free to PM or email me) 

By the way, I am a PhD student at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics under the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, which is commissioned to be in charge of the validation of the idea in Singapore. I am not sure what I, or even our centre can do (personally, I didn't know this was happening until I saw this post). But if anyone can think of anything I should do, let me know. (if you think there might be infohazard, feel free to PM or email me) 

Thanks for sharing! I have a follow up question:

This is why we are intentionally spending more of our effort looking for opportunities in Africa to prevent and roll back intensive farming methods liked caged hen farming

Is the rise of caged broiler systems also under your radar? That includes its rise in China (where this system started), Asia, and Africa.

Thank you for the post! 

Protect numerous and neglected species from intensive confinement systems as new forms of animal agriculture emerge

I wonder if you consider the potential rise of meat consumption in Africa due to the projected wealth increase in many African countries to be one of the greatest new factory farming crisis? And if yes, do you consider that to be one of the greatest priority areas? 

I actually don't have anything substantive to say. But since I often read your posts and not comment or say thank you (but I usually upvoted), so for once I would like to say thank you for your interesting, stimulating, and often important work!

Thank you for the clarifcation! And thanks for engaging in the conversation!

Thanks for the reply!

it would make sense to focus on layers in the Middle East until hitting diminishing returns there. 

I wonder why you hold this view. It seems to me that for the caged layer issue, it's a reversion problem because the vast majority of laying hens in the Middle East are already caged, while for the caged broiler issue, it can still be seen as a prevention problem because many broilers are still not yet in caged systems. And it seems to me that it's plausible that a prevention might be easier and more effective than a reversion?