Google makes another major data centre investment in Malaysia

Details: Vaughan O'Grady; Category: Data Centres & Networks; 09 May 2025; 14206 views

Malaysia is back in the data centre news again. Hard on the heels of news that Equinix has completed the second phase of a new data centre in Cyberjaya, Selangor, has come the announcement of an award by Google related to the building of a hyperscale data centre in the country.

Google has in fact awarded leading infrastructure and real estate company Gamuda its second contract in almost exactly a year. This one is worth MYR1 billion (US$233.7 million). A Gamuda division called Gamuda DC Infrastructure apparently signed the agreement with Google’s Pearl Computing Malaysia.

According to Forbes, referring to a stock exchange filing, the plan is to construct a hyperscale data center in Port Dickson, about 90 kilometres south of Kuala Lumpur.

Gamuda DC is also contracted to build a water treatment plant to supply 65 million litres of water per day needed to cool the data centre. In addition, Gamuda DC has also agreed to sell 157 hectares of land to Pearl Computing as the site of the data centre project. This will cost MYR455 million (US$106.3 million).

In May 2024, Google awarded Gamuda a MYR1.7 billion (US$397.2 million) deal to handle the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing works for Pearl Computing’s data centre project at Elmina Business Park in Selangor, northwest of Kuala Lumpur.

Around the same time we reported that Google had announced plans to invest US$2 billion in Malaysia. It said that it aimed to develop its first data centre in the country, along with a Google Cloud hub.