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Malaysia's Supportive Pro-Business Policies Attract Global Data Center Players

Malaysia is emerging as an important hub for data centers in Asia, with pro-business policies aimed at attracting and retaining investors, according to RHB Investment Bank Bhd. The research house cited the government's commitment to accelerate digital adoption and a new investment policy unvei...

April 18, 2023

Malaysia

MN Holdings partners with China's DC-Science for Malaysian data center

MN Holdings Bhd has announced a partnership with China's Shanghai DC-Science Co Ltd to construct a high-performance data center in Malaysia. This is the latter's first location outside of China. The MoU signed on April 1, 2023, will see a facility, which will span across a 20-acre site at the ...

April 05, 2023

Malaysia

Gaw Establishes New Data Center Company in Collaboration With A3

Gaw Capital Partners with A3 Capital has created a new Southeast Asia-focused data center joint venture platform. This week, real estate private equity company Gaw launched a joint venture to invest in greenfield and failing data center facilities in major Southeast Asian countries. Also, t...

February 23, 2023

Malaysia

YTL announces $256m green loan for Johor data center

YTL Corp has announced that it has secured an RM1.1 billion ($256m) green loan for its upcoming data center in Johor, Malaysia. The fund will be used to develop a 48MW data center in Johor, in the Kulai area, which the company is aiming to obtain Gold LEED certification for. "As one of the key...

January 23, 2023

Malaysia

JLG and Mitsui sign MoU for data center & solar farm in Johor, Malaysia

JL and Group Sdn Bhd (JLG) and Japanese conglomerate Mitsui have announced a partnership that will see the development of a data center and solar farm in Johor, Malaysia. Through the MoU, the two will conduct a joint feasibility study on the development of a hyperscale data center and solar fa...

December 08, 2022

Malaysia

Bridge Data Centres announces launch of new facility in Johor, Malaysia

Bridge Data Centres (BDC), a ChinData-owned company, has announced the opening of the first phase of the MY06 data center in Sedenak, located within the Sedenak Tech Park (STeP) in Johor, Malaysia. Part of its 110MW project, phase 1 covers the first of three buildings across the 38-acre site. ...

October 21, 2022

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The YTL Green Data Centre Park and what it means for Johor

YTL Data Centre Holdings Pte Ltd and Sea Ltd recently held the ground-breaking ceremony for The Sea Data Centre, signifying the first phase of the 500MW YTL Green Data Center Park in Johor, Malaysia. The project represents an RM1.5 billion investment into the area over the next ten years, with...

September 09, 2022

YTL Johor

Edge Centres' Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Edge Facility To Come online in July

Edge Centres has started working on its Edge data center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Australian Edge data center company announced that it would be expanding into Asia. The first facility called EC31 is being developed in Malaysia. Edge Centres scheduled the site to be completed in July. Th...

June 30, 2022

Kuala Lumpur

Many Companies Line Up To Buy Time Dotcom's Data Center Business

According to Bloomberg, many companies including BDx, DigitalBridge, STT GDC, Digital Edge, and STT GDC are exploring options of acquiring Time Dotcom’s data center assets. The long line of suitors are currently performing due diligence on the data center assets. Offer for the assets could be ...

June 30, 2022

Malaysia

YTL's solar-powered data center campus

YTL Power recently announced the development of a 500MW solar-powered data center campus in Johor, the first of its kind in Malaysia. 30km from Singapore, the data center park is based in the Iskandar region of Johor, where 275 acres of the site will be dedicated to data center development off...

May 11, 2022

Malaysia

GDS and YTL To Jointly Develop Eight Data Centers With 168MW Capacity in Johor, Malaysia

GDS has announced its plan to develop multiple data centers in YTL’s data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. GDS Holdings and YTL Power International Berhad signed an agreement to co-build eight data centers at the YTL Green Data Center Park. The data centers developed will have a capacity o...

April 28, 2022

GDS Services Ltd

GDS Starts Work on its RM1.38 Billion Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia

GDS Holdings has announced that it has started work on a data center campus in Malaysia. The company revealed that it would invest RM1.38 billion in developing the 242,200 square feet (22,500 square meters) at the Nusajaya Tech Park in Johor. The hyperscale data center campus will deliver 5...

April 25, 2022

DayOne: Nusajaya Tech Park

YTL Corp To Develop a 500MW Data Center Campus in Johor, Malaysia

YTL Corp is looking to develop a 500MW data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. The Malaysian conglomerate announced that it wants to develop the solar-powered facility in the Iskandar region of Johor. According to the company, it will be the first data center park in the country to be solar-...

April 22, 2022

YTL Johor

Open DC Partnering With Malaysian Government For a Data Center in Northern Malaysia

Open DC is developing a data center in north Malaysia. The Malaysian data center firm is partnering with the Malaysian government to bring the data center to life. Although specific details about the facility weren’t shared, it is still expected to meet Tier III standards. Furthermore, the ...

April 19, 2022

Open DC

Telekom Malaysia: Green electricity tariff secured for three data centers

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has announced that it has secured a Green Electricity Tariff (GET) for three of its data centers: Klang Valley Core Data Centre (KVDC) in Cyberjaya, Iskandar Puteri Core Data Centre (IPDC) in Johor Baru, and KL City Data Centre (CTDC) in Brickfields. The GET from Tenaga N...

April 05, 2022

Malaysia

AIMS Data Centre buys a 13-story building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Malaysia’s AIMS Data Centre has revealed that it acquired a 13-story building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The data center firm acquired the purpose-built office building for RM 62 million ($14.8m). The company reached an agreement with KWSP (Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund Board) for the bu...

January 17, 2022

AIMS Data Centre Sdn Bhd

GDS plans 54MW hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia

GDS has announced plans to build a 22,500 sqm (242,200 sq ft), 54MW hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. This move follows the firm acquiring land in the Nusajaya Tech Park, Johor. According to the company, it plans to complete the project's first phase in early 2024, with a capa...

July 20, 2021

DayOne: Nusajaya Tech Park

Bridge Data Centres Expands Footprint in Malaysia With Third Data Centre

Bridge Data Centres has announced that the company is adding its third facility in Malaysia. The address is unknown, but the company states it till be in the Bukit Jalil region of Kuala Lumpur. The facility will be 16-megawatts and scheduled to be ready for service in Q2 2022. Bridge Press ...

February 03, 2021

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