Global South·Southeast Asia·Group: Alibaba
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Add the precise opening date: the third data center was launched on 1 July 2025 (Alizila, 2025-07-09); the second data center in the Philippines is planned to enter service in October 2025.
A multi-data-center local footprint underpinning critical business resilience and the local rollout of AI applications.
No primary local partner disclosed in this record.
Malaysia's third data center (company-disclosed; the investment amount was not disclosed).
Record note: Replace the unverified 2017 inference with: 'The entry_year=2025 in this record denotes the year of this specific project, not the year Alibaba Cloud entered Malaysia; two data centers already existed prior to this one, and their commissioning dates could not be verified this time (neither DCD nor Alizila provided them). Alibaba's earliest AI deployment in Malaysia is documented in SE-019 (the 2018 City Brain project).'
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Malaysia·Southeast Asia
GDS launched its Nusajaya Tech Park (NTP) data-centre campus in Iskandar Puteri, Johor in August 2023. Phase 1 comprises NTP1, NTP2 and NTP3 with 22,500 sqm (242,200 sq ft) of net floor area and 69.5 MW of IT power; GDS acquired the land in July 2021 and broke ground in April 2022 (roughly 16 months to delivery, ahead of the originally planned 2024 date). GDS CEO William Huang described the campus as a catalyst for the region's journey towards a world-class AI computing hub. GDS's international business was spun off as DayOne at the start of 2025. In June 2025 DayOne signed a 21-year contract for up to 500 MW of solar power with Tenaga Nasional Berhad under Malaysia's Corporate Renewable Energy Supply Scheme (CRESS), covering Nusajaya Tech Park and Kempas Tech Park, whose combined data-centre capacity is 120 MW.
ByteDance established its presence in Malaysia as the anchor tenant of the BDC MY06 hyperscale data center at Sedenak Tech Park in Johor (commissioned in 2022), and subsequently announced an investment of approximately RM10 billion (about US$2.1 billion) to establish an AI center in Malaysia, together with a further approximately RM1.5 billion to expand its data center. According to disclosures by the Johor Menteri Besar (Chief Minister), ByteDance's cumulative investment in AI data centers in Malaysia has exceeded RM29.5 billion, making it a core investor in Johor's AI computing cluster.
Malaysia·Southeast Asia
MY06 is the fourth hyperscale data-centre campus announced by Bridge Data Centres (per MIDA, 2021-12-02): approximately 40 acres, 100 MW of IT load, an investment of approximately RM2.5 billion over five years, three buildings, with Phase 1 in place by end-2022. It serves as the dedicated data centre anchored by ByteDance in Johor, Malaysia.