SINGAPORE, May 12 (Reuters) – U.S.-listed data centre company Equinix will create a new data centre in Kuala Lumpur with an investment of over $190 million, its fourth such facility in Malaysia, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
The company said that the facility will be built less than one kilometre from its existing facility in Kuala Lumpur and is expected to house more than 2,200 cabinets.
A “substantial portion” of total capacity will support advanced liquid cooling solutions to meet the demands of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, it added.
“The development is part of Equinix’s long-term expansion strategy in Malaysia, with future growth potential supported by adjacent land secured for future expansion, reinforcing Kuala Lumpur’s role as a key interconnection hub in ASEAN,” it said.
The expansion comes as the data centre boom in Malaysia starts to slow, with the country grappling with power grid and water resource constraints.
It has also come under pressure from Washington to stop Chinese firms using the Southeast Asian region as a backdoor to access U.S.-made AI chips subject to export controls.
(Reporting by Jun Yuan Yong; Editing by Martin Petty)