Data centers in Malaysia

Two corridors and a tighter approval regime

Malaysia has 83 facilities in the atlas, and 26 of them, 31%, are still under construction or announced. That is a far younger stock than India's (17% in the pipeline) or Australia's (13%). The country splits into two corridors. The Klang Valley grouping, Kuala Lumpur with Cyberjaya, Shah Alam and their neighbours, has 52 facilities. The Johor grouping, across the causeway from Singapore, has 25.

Published capacity runs the other way. Johor's facilities state 2,829 MW between them against 1,035 MW for the Klang Valley: fewer sites, much larger ones. Kulai alone has 7 records and 1,468 MW, led by YTL Green Data Center Park (500 MW, under construction) and PDG JH2 (300 MW, announced) and GDS at YTL Green Data Center Park (168 MW, announced).

A caution on Kulai: GDS at YTL Green Data Center Park (168 MW) is described by its source as a development within the YTL Green Data Center Park (500 MW). The two records cite different announcements and are kept separate, but the GDS phase may be part of the park's headline figure, so Kulai's total could overstate the site by up to 168 MW.

Cyberjaya: the established hub, re-sized

Cyberjaya is the densest single location in the country with 30 facilities, and Kuala Lumpur proper adds 12. 23 of Cyberjaya's sites are operating; AIMS Data Centre has the most records of any operator in Malaysia (7). The new projects are of another scale; operating Cyberjaya sites that publish a figure have a median of 8 MW, while the largest projects state Vantage Cyberjaya II Campus (256 MW), AIMS 200MW AI Data Centre Cyberjaya (200 MW), EdgeConneX Cyberjaya Campus (200 MW). Among operators, the largest published totals belong to Vantage (587 MW) and AirTrunk (550 MW).

What the rules now favour

Malaysia's pipeline has grown while approvals tightened. Johor set up a vetting committee in June 2024 and by November that year had rejected nearly 30% of applications, partly because sites lacked adequate utilities. In November 2025 the state said it would no longer approve Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centres because of their water use, and new projects must source reclaimed water. In February 2026 the Prime Minister told parliament that applications unrelated to high technology and AI had already been stopped for almost two years. The incentive side points the same way: MIDA's Digital Ecosystem Acceleration Scheme gives digital infrastructure providers a 100% investment tax allowance for up to ten years, open until 2027, provided projects meet the national sustainable data centre guidelines. The result is visible in the data: 15 of the 26 Malaysian projects in the pipeline are flagged AI-ready by their sources.

Power

Electricity comes from Tenaga Nasional (TNB) under its 2025–2027 regulatory period. The power dataset puts the all-in business price at about $0.135 per kWh: a base commercial tariff plus a monthly fuel surcharge, sales tax and a renewable-energy levy. Two recent statements show how large the loads have become. DayOne / TNB Power Generation (2026-08-07): MOU to explore up to 1.5 GW of dedicated on-site generation for DayOne's planned Sepang, Selangor campus. DayOne (2026-10-14): DayOne upsized its Malaysia syndicated financing to about $7.2B and reported billings above 1GW and bookings of about 2.3GW. DayOne's Malaysian campuses are not yet individual rows in the facility table, so its capacity appears here only through these statements.

Only 8 of Malaysia's 83 facilities have published coordinates, so the map below shows a small part of the market; the city tables are the better guide.

Because new approvals now go mainly to AI workloads, much of this capacity will be sold as GPU compute rather than racks. Rental prices for that compute and a census of AI campuses are tracked at computecensus.com.

Who operates data centers in Malaysia

15 of 46 operators shown: the largest by number of facilities, plus any of the six largest by published MW. "Pipeline" counts sites under construction or announced.

Malaysia by city and metro

Malaysia: projects under construction and announced

Electricity price for data centers in Malaysia

$0.135 per kWh (range $0.120–$0.145), business tariff. TNB RP4 (2025-2027) base tariff — C1/C2 commercial 36.50 sen/kWh, E1 industrial 33.70 sen/kWh — plus a monthly AFA surcharge that peaked at +3.80 sen/kWh in August 2026 and has since eased for two straight months (Sept +3.67 sen; TNB's own Oct-Dec outlook: +3.36, +2.81, +5.48 sen), 6% SST and a 1.6% KWTBB levy; latest all-in GlobalPetrolPrices read is MYR 0.568/kWh (~$0.139).

Malaysia: incentives and restrictions

Capacity statements about Malaysia

• 2026-08-07 · DayOne / TNB Power Generation (Sepang, Selangor), 1,500 MW — on-site generation explored (MOU): MOU to explore up to 1.5 GW of dedicated on-site generation for DayOne's planned Sepang, Selangor campus.
• 2026-10-14 · DayOne (Johor), 1,000 MW — billings: contracted IT power generating income (company definition, over 1GW, all markets): DayOne upsized its Malaysia syndicated financing to about $7.2B and reported billings above 1GW and bookings of about 2.3GW.

Datasets behind this page: facility count (83 facilities); operators table (46 operators); mw pipeline (20 projects with published MW); power tariff (Malaysia $0.135/kWh); metros / cities (14 cities, 2 metro groupings); incentives / restrictions (1 incentives, 3 restrictions); capacity statements (2 statements). How they are compiled: methodology. Sources: see Sources.