PETALING JAYA: Johor has established itself as South-East Asia’s fastest-growing data centre (DC) hub, with total capacity nearly doubling in the past year to 5.8 gigawatts (GW) as of the second quarter of 2025, according to Knight Frank.
This includes two GW of new project announcements, backed by strong government support and the rollout of national Data Centre Planning Guidelines. The growth cements Malaysia’s southern state as a critical anchor in Asia Pacific’s record-breaking expansion, which saw almost 13GW of new project announcements in the first half of 2025 (1H25), a 160% increase from a year earlier.
