Vertiv and Airtrunk boost their data centre operations in Malaysia

Details: Vaughan O'Grady; Category: Data Centres & Networks; 06 July 2026; 154 views

Among recent data centre headlines from Malaysia has been news that digital infrastructure company Vertiv is increasing manufacturing capacity, while a deal involving hyperscale data centre specialist Airtrunk aims to secure renewable energy supply for the company’s data centre platform.

Vertiv has announced the opening of its manufacturing facility in Johor, expanding the company’s manufacturing footprint to support growing demand for AI and high-density computing infrastructure across Asia.

The Johor facility supports end-to-end manufacturing, assembly, and full-scale witness testing for advanced thermal and power infrastructure, enabling Vertiv to deliver high-density solutions with validated performance to help reduce deployment risk and accelerate time to capacity for customers across enterprise, cloud, and colocation environments.

The facility is expected to bring hundreds of skilled jobs to the region when fully operationalised in 2027.

The new facility’s offering will include manufacturing capabilities for large-scale thermal management, power and infrastructure solutions for AI and traditional applications; a dedicated testing environment designed to validate liquid cooling and integrated power solutions under customer site conditions before deployment; and simultaneous testing of multiple power modules and skids.

Meanwhile hyperscale data centre specialist, AirTrunk and ib vogt, a global multi-technology renewable energy platform, have commenced commercial operations for a 29.99 MWac solar project supporting AirTrunk’s operations in Malaysia.

The project is the first renewable energy virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for a data centre under the Malaysia’s Corporate Green Power Programme (CGPP).

Under the long-term agreement, the solar facility, developed by ib vogt is now generating and delivering clean energy into Malaysia’s grid.

Damien Spillane, Chief Customer and Innovation Officer of AirTrunk explains: “This long-term collaboration contributes new renewable energy capacity to Malaysia’s grid while supporting AirTrunk’s commitment to match 100% of electricity consumption across our data centre platform with renewable energy by 2030.”