Malaysia

Alibaba Cloud deployed its City Brain platform in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- City Brain's first expansion beyond Greater China (an agreement had already been signed with Macau in August 2017) -- with the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL). Reported deployment figures are media-reported rather than company-disclosed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On 13 August 2025, on the opening day of the ASEAN AI Summit 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Huawei Cloud held the Huawei Cloud AI Ecosystem Summit APAC. Huawei Malaysia announced, with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in attendance, a three-year commitment to train 30,000 Malaysian AI professionals and cultivate 200 local AI partners — a forward-looking pledge, not work already delivered. Huawei Cloud additionally lists a Kuala Lumpur region code (AP-Kuala Lumpur-OP6 / my-kualalumpur-1) in its own SDK region table; no third-party source located to date confirms an operating local node.

Zhipu AI helped Malaysia build a national-level sovereign large-model MaaS (Model-as-a-Service) platform and establish the national sovereign AI talent-development laboratory Z-UM AI Lab. The platform is built on Z.ai's open-source foundation models, optimized for a multilingual environment spanning Malay, English, and Chinese as well as local culture, and adopts a sovereignty-centered data security architecture, empowering use cases in government affairs, enterprise, research, and education. It has been described as the first substantive overseas case of a Chinese company delivering a national-level sovereign large model.

北京自动驾驶物流企业新石器（Neolix）被马来西亚交通部（MOT）列入首批获准在国家监管沙盒（National Regulatory Sandbox, NRS）框架下开展无人配送车公共道路测试的企业。路测将于2026年下半年分阶段进行，地点以赛城（Cyberjaya，马来西亚 MyAV 约7公里公共道路测试路线所在地）为主并覆盖其他若干地点，涵盖封闭道路、半开放与公共道路环境。本地联合体包括 Tiong Nam Logistics、Asia Mobiliti（Trek 运营方）与 MindHub，评估快递包裹配送、园区物流与电商即时履约等用例。

奇瑞（HKEX: 9973）于2025年1月孵化的机器人品牌 AiMOGA 以马来西亚为其首个海外市场：2025年首次在该国将机器人引入汽车营销与服务场景。CnEVPost 报道，截至2026年7月底 AiMOGA 海外累计交付突破2000台，产品与服务覆盖60多个国家和地区（2025年底为300台人形机器人与1000台机器狗、30多个国家）。其机器人用于汽车营销与服务、公共空间导览、智慧警务、医疗导诊与商务接待等场景。