Google will invest $15B (about Php 950 billion) in Malaysia in 2027 and 2028, adding data center campuses in the states of Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, the company said in an official announcement. The plan also calls for more than 1 gigawatt (GW) of new clean energy capacity on the country’s National Grid.
The $15B is seven and a half times the $2B (about Php 127 billion) Google committed in 2024 for its first Malaysian campus, at Elmina Business Park in Selangor. That campus is now operational.
Together, the campuses will run homegrown digital and AI apps inside Malaysia and power Search, Maps and Chrome across the Asia-Pacific region. Google’s Selangor capacity will also support an upcoming Google Cloud region in Malaysia for enterprise customers.
Rising local demand is the stated reason, and 243 million Southeast Asians already use generative AI. Google doesn’t give a capacity figure for the campuses or say how many it will build in total.
Google says its custom chips, networking gear, coolant units and power systems let it run campuses in warm climates like Malaysia’s at a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.12 to 1.14, well below the 1.54 industry average. That stays a claim until these sites report: Google says it will publish quarterly PUE figures for each one once it’s fully operational.
The campuses will be water-cooled, which Google says cuts a data center’s energy use by about 10% compared with air cooling. Its assessments found the watersheds in both states aren’t at high risk of scarcity or depletion.
In Negeri Sembilan, Google is also funding a $160M (about Php 10 billion) reservoir and water treatment plant, according to a separate announcement. This plant will be able to deliver 65 million liters of drinking water a day, for its Port Dickson campus and the state’s public supply.
On electricity, Google says it will pay for 100% of the power its campuses use and the direct cost of connecting them to the grid.
Construction runs from now through 2028. Once the new campuses are running, Google projects more than 9,000 local jobs a year, a count that includes contractors and workers at the shops and restaurants staff use.
