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KUALA LUMPUR - Google has announced plans to invest $15 billion in Malaysia from 2027 to 2028, with the spending going towards data centre campuses, clean energy, bolstering water security and upskilling workers.
The company plans to build new campuses in the states of Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, in addition to its first campus at Elmina Business Park in Selangor, which is already operational.
“This investment aligns with Malaysia’s development priorities, providing the foundational computing capacity to deliver the upside of innovation across the country while adding local power and water resources as our operations scale,” said Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Google’s parent company Alphabet.
The construction phase for the campuses is expected to contribute an annual average of $1.1 billion to Malaysia’s gross domestic product and support more than 37,000 local jobs per year, Google said.
The facilities, once operational, are projected to sustain more than 9,000 local jobs per year, with wages averaging 45% above the national median.
Google said it also plans to add more than 1 gigawatt of clean energy capacity to Malaysia’s national grid.
“Google will also pay for 100% of the power its data centre campuses use and the direct infrastructure costs required to connect them to the grid, while complying with all applicable local regulations,” a company statement said.
On efficiency, Google said its Malaysian campuses would run at a power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio of 1.12 to 1.14.
PUE is an industry metric that measures how efficiently a data centre uses energy by comparing the total facility energy consumption to the energy used by its IT equipment.
Google also announced its plans for four new programmes aimed at upskilling 800,000 Malaysians over the next five years.
