New capacity in the pipeline

THE data centre industry globally is seeing a major boost in new builds driven by demand from digitalisation, geopolitics and expectations for the potential artificial intelligence (AI) could present.

Asean has already received proposals for 1.5 gigawatt (GW) of new builds, which would more than double the region’s current 1.2GW capacity, including some 1,146.2 megawatt (MW) of proposed new data centre capacity in Malaysia.