BMI says Malaysia now has 125 data centre facilities with 925.6MW of live capacity, 2.0GW under construction and a 3.1GW planned pipeline, with Johor holding a combined pipeline of 4.1GW.
The expanded region adds cloud and GPU capacity for customers, with data remaining in country.
Short training and inference jobs no longer pay for a full hour of idle GPU time.
A failover completed in 11 minutes instead of 90 seconds. Here is what we changed.
Hosting in Singapore and calling it regional does not serve Sabah and Sarawak well.
It is about 22 minutes a month. Read the exclusions before you compare two numbers.
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.
Microsoft has unveiled Southeast Asia 3, its second cloud region in Malaysia, to be developed in Johor Bahru as part of a US$2.2 billion investment that also covers land bought from EcoWorld and Crescendo Corp.
