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YTL Power International is planning a gigawatt-scale data centre campus at Sedenak Tech Park West on 145 acres from JLand Group, with an option over 400 more acres and a Kulai campus growing to 1,000MW.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres has secured up to US$1.37 billion in green loan funding for STT Johor, its flagship 166MW campus in Iskandar Puteri, with the first phase due to be completed in 2027.

The Personal Data Protection Department is investigating Maxis over the unauthorised disclosure of customer account and billing data, acting under the PDPA 2010. The case follows the leak of details linked to Khairul Aming.

The Selangor Intelligent Parking platform has been taken offline after hackers targeted data transaction systems linked to the nationwide Flexi Parking network, disrupting parking payments across 64 local authorities.

The Malaysia Digital 2030 action plan sets 2030 targets of a 30 per cent digital economy contribution to GDP, 500,000 high-value digital jobs, RM4.5 billion in public sector savings and 95 per cent of services online.

Alibaba Cloud has launched a public cloud region in Johor with two new data centres, taking its Malaysian footprint to five facilities and adding agentic AI services later in 2026.

Malaysia approved RM92.8 billion in investments in the first quarter of 2026, expected to create 50,226 jobs, with data centres and cloud computing alone accounting for RM34.6 billion across 33 projects.

Johor is creating a data centre framework to guide long-term planning and continuous improvement, with state investment chairman Lee Ting Han saying the state was the first in Malaysia to introduce its own guidelines.