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Data centre development continues to ramp up in Malaysia

Data centre development continues to ramp up in Malaysia

The rush to build data centres in Malaysia continues apparently unabated, with new announcements targeting Cyberjaya, a planned city outside of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, and Banting, a town in the western peninsular state of Selangor.

AIMS, a company owned by investment firm Digital Bridge, which focuses on digital infrastructure, has acquired ten acres of land in Malaysia to develop a data centre facility with 200MW of capacity.

AIMS, a data centre operator that provides colocation and edge facilities and interconnection services in Southeast Asia, says that the facility will see approximately RM4 billion (US$1 billion) worth of investment, with construction scheduled for completion in 2027.

Described as AIMS’ next flagship ecosystem and hyperscale facility, it will be located in Cyberjaya, where the company already operates a 50MW data centre that began construction in 2020.

Meanwhile, Malaysian property developer IOI Properties Group has sold 136 acres of land in one of its industrial parks – in Banting, Selangor – to Singapore’s Bridge Data Centres for the construction of a data centre campus.

The Data Centre Dynamics website says Selangor surrounds Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, and the area is known as a colocation and cloud hub – in contrast to Johor, where most of Malaysia’s hyperscale facilities are set to be built.

It adds that details about the campus’ capacity, power source, and total floor area were not made available, though IOI Properties Group has a presence in Malaysia, Singapore, and Xiamen in China, and the company specialises in property development and investment.

Bridge DC is a prominent data centre player in Malaysia and the APAC region. It currently operates two facilities in Cyberjaya, with a third in development; it launched a data centre outside Johor in 2022.



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