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Malaysia Turns Palm Oil Plantations into AI Data Centers and Solar Farms
The $1.6 billion investment expands Vantage's Asia-Pacific capacity to about 1GW and adds Johor’s 300MW hyperscale campus, enhancing infrastructure for AI and cloud customers.
- Vantage Data Centers completed a $1.6 billion equity investment into its Asia-Pacific platform, closing the purchase of Yondr Group’s JHB1 campus in Johor, Malaysia.
- Initially announced in September, the deal expands Vantage's regional platform to 1GW of operational and planned IT capacity across Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
- The Johor campus, JHB1, sits on nearly 73 acres, will deliver three data centers, and was financed by a green loan featuring direct-to-chip liquid cooling and EDGE certification targets.
- Vantage welcomed more than 30 Yondr APAC team members, while DigitalBridge said new commitments from GIC and ADIA will drive continued regional growth, Jeremy Deutsch said.
- Located in the Johor–Singapore Special Economic Zone, the campus offers dark fiber routes to regional hubs and strengthens access to Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand for AI and cloud customers.
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A wave of AI investment is pushing Malaysian palm oil giants to convert plantation land to build data centers and renewable energy.
Malaysia Turns Palm Oil Plantations into AI Data Centers and Solar Farms
From Oil Palms to Digital Hubs: Malaysia’s Unexpected Tech Renaissance In the lush, humid expanses of Malaysia’s countryside, where endless rows of oil palm trees have long dominated the landscape, a radical transformation is underway. Once the backbone of the nation’s economy, these vast plantations are now being repurposed into sprawling data center parks, fueled by the global surge in artificial intelligence and cloud computing demands. This …
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