Data centres make up the bulk of RM144.7bil in approved digital investments


Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz

KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) announced today that of the RM144.7 billion approved digital investments between 2021 and 2023, data centres make up RM114.7 billion, creating 39,231 job opportunities.

Its minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz said that in 2021 the approved investments were RM3.4 billion, RM80.8 billion in 2022 and RM60.5 billion last year coming from various organisations including Amazon, GDS, YTL and ByteDance.

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