{"id":1217911,"date":"2025-02-20T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1217911"},"modified":"2025-02-20T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T14:40:00","slug":"malaysia-is-betting-on-data-centers-to-boost-its-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1217911","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia is Betting on Data Centers To Boost Its Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Malaysia is aggressively expanding its data center capacity, positioning itself as Southeast Asia&#8217;s fastest-growing market with planned investments exceeding $31 billion in the first 10 months of 2024, triple the amount from 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s southern Johor province is set to host at least 1.6 gigawatts of data center capacity, up from nearly zero in 2019. Twenty-two mostly foreign data centers already occupy 21 hectares, with more under construction. The push comes as neighboring Singapore paused new data center construction in 2019 due to resource constraints. <\/p>\n<p>Some experts are warning the expansion could strain Malaysia&#8217;s power and water resources, with data center power demand potentially reaching 5 gigawatts by 2035 &#8211; more than half the country&#8217;s current renewable capacity. The facilities, operated by companies including Microsoft, Equinix and China&#8217;s GDS Holdings, primarily service East Asia, China and Europe rather than domestic users.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Malaysia+is+Betting+on+Data+Centers+To+Boost+Its+Economy%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F20%2F0848204%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-193.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F20%2F0848204%2Fmalaysia-is-betting-on-data-centers-to-boost-its-economy%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-108.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/20\/0848204\/malaysia-is-betting-on-data-centers-to-boost-its-economy?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23615363&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia is aggressively expanding its data center capacity, positioning itself as Southeast Asia&#8217;s fastest-growing market with planned investments exceeding $31 billion in the first 10 months of 2024, triple the amount from 2023. The country&#8217;s southern Johor province is set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1217911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}