Malaysia courting AI-driven data centers to become hub in Southeast Asia

JOHOR, Malaysia - Malaysia has been ramping up efforts to attract domestic and international investors to set up data centers amid a global surge in demand for such facilities due to the spread of artificial intelligence.

Leveraging its proximity to Singapore, a financial and logistics hub in Southeast Asia, Malaysia aims to provide large tracts of land for data center construction. In particular, its southern state of Johor, which lies just north of the prosperous city-state across a causeway, has been seeing a data center construction boom.