Kuala lumpur: Digital Realty has launched its Malaysia platform, marking a key milestone in its Asia Pacific expansion, with plans to develop and scale its data centre capacity in the country to approximately 32 megawatts (MW).
According to BERNAMA News Agency, the launch signals Digital Realty's commitment to supporting Malaysia's ambition to become a leading digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI) hub in Southeast Asia, while integrating the country into its global platform designed for interconnection, resilience, and scale.
Malaysia's Minister of Digital, Gobind Singh Deo, stated that the investment represents an important step in strengthening the country's position as a sovereign, interconnected, and sustainable digital infrastructure hub. He added that investments in advanced digital infrastructure such as this are essential to supporting Malaysia's AI ambitions and strengthening its position as a regional innovation hub.
Digital Realty Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, Serene Nah, said growing digital adoption and increasingly distributed AI-driven workloads are driving demand for scalable and highly interconnected infrastructure. "Malaysia plays a key role as an interconnection hub within our regional footprint, enabling customers to seamlessly deploy and manage workloads across markets. By integrating our Cyberjaya facilities into PlatformDIGITAL, we will extend a connected data community that spans key hubs such as Singapore and Jakarta," she said.
Anchored in Cyberjaya, the campus is designed to support Malaysian enterprises as they transition from traditional information technology (IT) environments to hybrid architectures and AI-driven applications, according to Digital Realty in a statement. The campus will comprise three facilities connected by dedicated fibre, namely KUL10, an operational carrier-dense facility with 1.5MW of IT capacity; KUL11, a newly acquired purpose-built data centre with 15MW of IT capacity; and a future expansion site planned for a new 14MW data centre.
Digital Realty plans to upgrade KUL10 to its global standards, nearly doubling its capacity by the fourth quarter of 2027, while the new facility is targeted for completion in mid-2028 to support hybrid colocation and AI-ready deployments. Together, the facilities will form a highly connected platform supported by more than 40 network service providers and a broad ecosystem of cloud and connectivity partners.
Customers in Malaysia will also be able to connect to Digital Realty's global platform of more than 300 data centres across over 30 countries, enabling low-latency connectivity and seamless deployment of workloads across key regional hubs, including Singapore and Jakarta.