June 03, 2024 Malaysia
Real estate firms UEM Sunrise and Logos are partnering for a data center campus in Johor, Malaysia. According to a new announcement, both companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Logos Infrastructure Holdco Pte Ltd to exclusively explore the opportunity in developing a...
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April 23, 2024 Malaysia
Malaysian firm Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) announced this week that it has sold a former steel complex in Johor to a data center operator in a deal valued at RM162 million ($33.9m) and is set to close in the second half of the year. The buyer wasn’t named, but the terms of the...
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February 27, 2024 Malaysia
APAC operator Bridge Data Centres has revealed new plans for further expansion in Malaysia with a new facility in Cyberjaya. The ChinData subsidiary said the project will offer 87MW across three phases, with the first two phases involving the construction of a three-story data center. “We are...
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February 21, 2024 Malaysia
GDS this week announced a 21-year Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) with Malaysian renewable energy firm, Cenergi SEA Berhad (Cenergi), under Malaysia’s Corporate Green Power Programme (CGPP). Under the agreement, GDS has subscribed to 22.5MWac of renewable power for its Nusajaya Tech Park...
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December 08, 2023 Malaysia
Chinese data center developer and operator GDS has raised MYR1.27 billion ($270m) in green financing for its Nusajaya Tech Park data center in Malaysia. The finance was secured from four financial institutions: UOB Malaysia, Bank of China (Malaysia) Berhad, OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad, and...
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December 04, 2023 Malaysia
Malaysian telco Axiata Group Berhad announced last week that it has entered into an unconditional sale and purchase agreement with Spectrlite UK Limited for the sale of Reynolds Holding Limited, which owns approximately 80 percent equity stake in Ncell Axiata Limited. The company mentioned that...
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November 03, 2023 Batam
Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners and Indonesian developer Sinar Primera announced a partnership this week to build a data center in Batam, Indonesia. Gaw will be acting as the primary investor in this partnership with Sinar Primera as the development manager will take a...
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May 14, 2023 Malaysia
Acronis, a provider of cyber security for data, applications, and infrastructure, recently announced the opening of a new cyber cloud data center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This new rollout provides its partners access to a complete suite of cutting-edge cyber protection solutions, allowing for...
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May 09, 2023 Malaysia
AIMS Group has announced plans to build a second data center in Cyberjaya to meet data center demand in Malaysia. Work on AIMS Cyberjaya Block 2 is set to be complete by the end of the year, and offer a total IT load of 8MW.AIMS chief executive officer Chiew Kok Hin shared that 90% occupancy in...
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April 26, 2023 Malaysia
Malaysia has emerged as a serious player in the global data center market, ranking 22nd in the world and second in ASEAN by the Arcadis Data Center Location Index. This is a significant accomplishment for a country that was once overlooked by hyperscalers. According to Wan Murdani from the...
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April 18, 2023 Malaysia
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 unveiled...
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April 05, 2023 Malaysia
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...
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February 23, 2023 Malaysia
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, the new...
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January 23, 2023 Malaysia
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...
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December 08, 2022 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 farm...
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June 30, 2022 Kuala Lumpur
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. The...
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June 30, 2022 Malaysia
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...
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May 11, 2022 Malaysia
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...
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April 05, 2022 Malaysia
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...
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October 18, 2021 Batam
Data Center First has announced that it is moving into Batam, Indonesia, with its first data center in the country. According to the company, the first phase will see the construction of a 30MW facility at Batam Island's Nongsa Digital Park, spanning 276,600 sq ft (25,700 sqm), and there is a...
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