DayOne to invest US$ 7 billion in Malaysia in 2026
Singapore-headquartered data center platform, DayOne Data Centers Limited announced it would invest RM28 billion (US$ 6.96 billion) cumulatively in Malaysia by the end of 2026 to scale Malaysia into its largest global footprint, accounting for over 50 per cent of its workforce growth, the firm says in a press release yesterday. It aims to double […]
TeleChoice bids for data center project in Malaysia
Singapore-based ICT firm, TeleChoice International Limited, has been shortlisted to design and build a data center project in Malaysia, the portfolio company of ST Telemedia said in an exchange filing last week. The bid was jointly submitted with “certain consortium partners” which were not named in the filing. If successful, the consortium will finalise the […]
DayOne seeks to double loan to record US$ 7 billion: Bloomberg
Singapore-based data center player DayOne Data Centers Ltd is seeking to double the size of an existing loan to as much as US$7 billion which, if approved would be the largest data center loan in Asia, Bloomberg reports quoting people familiar with the matter. The additional funding which would add to its original US$3.4 billion-equivalent […]
ByteDance deploys 36,000 Nvidia B200 chips worth US$ 2.5 billion in Malaysia
TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, is said to be working with Southeast Asian firm Aolani Cloud to deploy some 500 Nvidea Blackwell GPUs in Malaysia for AI research and development, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) citing people familiar with the matter. The GPUs comprise 36,000 B200 chips said to be worth about US$ 2.5 […]
ZDATA tops green ranking, a first for data center in Malaysia
Beijing-based data center operator ZDATA Technologies’s US$2 billion GP3 hyperscale data center in Johor has recently earned the distinction of being the first data center in Malaysia to achieve the Green RE Platinum certification, the highest sustainability ranking in the country, the company announced at a media forum yesterday. The announcement came a day after […]
OPINION | To ban, or not to ban, that is the question for Malaysia
Malaysia doesn’t fail to come up with surprises lately where data centers (DCs) are concerned. The country that will surpass the entire Asia Pacific ex-China in data center capacity by 2030 is new at this game and understandably, the people managing it are still at various stages of the learning curve. The latest surprise comes […]
Malaysia restricts non-AI data centers: Anwar
In a surprise response in Parliament yesterday, Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the country has restricted all new non-AI data centers since the last two years. “Over the past one to two years, we have limited approvals for new data centres that are not AI-related,” he said when responding to the question […]
Malaysia: Powering data centers at scale
Malaysia ticks all the right boxes in ensuring its data centers have a smooth and sufficient flow of electricity in the years ahead. Does Malaysia have sufficient power to accommodate the projected massive increase in electricity consumption over the next five to ten years? Electricity consumption by data centers in Malaysia is projected to surge […]
Johor data center to tackle dust pollution following protest
The master developer of a data center in Johor, Tropicana Firstwide Sdn Bhd, has agreed to implement several measures to deal with the dust pollution complaint raised recently by about 50 residents in a data center-related protest, a first in the state. Among the measures were increasing the hoardings and netting on hillside slopes especially […]
[Opinion] Revisiting the first data center protest in Malaysia
Following the much-publicised protest last Saturday by a group of 50 residents demanding an end to dust pollution allegedly caused by the construction of a data center near their homes in Johor, the incident had brought up more questions than answers. The 50-strong delegation claim to represent 1,000 residents from across four housing estates in […]