Singapore-headquartered data centre developer and operator Empyrion Digital today announced in a statement it has received regulatory approvals for a new 200+MW hyperscale data center to be located in Johor. The Johor Data Centre Campus (“MY1”) will be developed on a 34.9-acre site and will comprise five 40MW buildings to be developed in phases. The first phase is targeted to be Ready-for-Service (RFS) in Q4 2026.
The company has secured 145MW of initial power allocation from Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), with earliest energisation targeted for September 2026, and scalability to support the full campus.
MY1 will incorporate state-of-the-art liquid and air-cooled technologies, targeting a PUE below 1.3 for liquid cooling and below 1.4 for air cooling. According to the statement, the campus will also have access to green energy through long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).
It has recently received regulatory approval for both the Electricity Supply Agreement (ESA) and Data Centre Task Force (DCTF) application for its first data centre campus in Malaysia. Located in Nusajaya within the SiLC Industrial Cluster of Johor, MY1 represents Empyrion Digital’s largest investment to date and its sixth data centre development across Asia.
MY1 will play a critical regional role in enhancing cross-border digital connectivity between Johor and Singapore. Through Empyrion’s sister connectivity platform, SPTel under Seraya Partners’ AQX Digital Infrastructure, customers will gain future access to secure, diverse, and low-latency routes linking MY1 in Johor to Empyrion’s SG1 data centre in Singapore.
These routes will significantly improve network diversity, operational resilience, and digital sovereignty, enabling customers to deploy multi-site AI, hybrid cloud, and disaster recovery architectures across the two locations. MY1 will therefore serve not only as a key hyperscale hub but also as a strategic extension of Singapore’s digital ecosystem.
Ernest Lee, Acting CEO of SPTel, said: “We see strong potential in collaborating with Empyrion to integrate resilient connectivity and edge cloud capabilities across Singapore and Johor. By combining SPTel’s secure, software-defined network with Empyrion’s data centre footprint, we aim to deliver faster, more flexible digital infrastructure solutions for customers in the region.”
Mark Fong, CEO of Empyrion Digital, said: “Malaysia has emerged as a key destination for hyperscale data centres, driven by strong digital transformation, favourable infrastructure, and government support . MY1 reflects Empyrion Digital’s continued ambition to expand our pan-Asian platform and meet our customers’ needs for scalable, green-by-design, and AI-ready infrastructure. Johor will be a cornerstone location in this strategy.”
Once completed, MY1 will join Empyrion Digital’s growing regional platform, which includes operational and development projects in Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Bangkok, bringing the company’s total IT cap across Asia to over 200MW.
Empyrion Digital is a portfolio company of Seraya Partners, a leading Asia infrastructure fund.