The developer of data centres’ Johor Bahru Project will occupy a 10,8 hectare (26.7 acres) and include two facilities that will cover 1 million square feet (92,903 square metres). Stack plans to launch the first phase of the campus in the fourth quarter 2026.
With most of Stack’s operations in the United States, Europe and Asia, the company’s Johor campus will have the highest capacity in an Asia Pacific Portfolio that the US player started assembling three year ago. Once the campus is operational, it will account for nearly half of Stack’s 480 Megawatts of Power in the region.
As part of our continued growth across APAC, the Johor Bahru Campus strengthens our capability to meet clients’ needs in established and emerging Tier 1 market, while fostering local economic growth,” said Stack Asia Pacific Chief Executive Officer Preet Gona.
Big Johor Bet.
DC Byte’s senior analyst Vivian Wong said to Mingtiandi, Stack’s 220 megawatt facility is aligned to an increasingly competitive Johor marketplace where a number campuses of over 200 Megawatts are being planned.
With its proximity to Singapore and abundant power and water resources Johor has been attracting major hyperscalers in recent years, including Microsoft Equin x NTT
Stack APAC CEO Preet Gonna
Stack stated that the first building on its Johor Campus will be a two-storey 120 megawatt facility, complemented with a second project of 100 megawatts. According to the announcement, Malaysian electric utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad is providing 275 kilovolts for the Johor Campus, supported by a substation on-site. Wong, who visited Stack’s development site in Johor the day after the hyperscaler announced their entry into Malaysia, told Mingtiandi the site was currently occupied by a steel factory that could be retrofitted to become the campus’ first structure.
Wong stated that Stack could be able stand out in the delivery timeline if it is able overcome the challenges and limitations with brownfield transformation to meet customer’s needs with fit out within existing space. Stack has not yet commented on any possible re-use existing structures on the website.
Stack has now expanded into five locations in Asia Pacific since launching its Asia Pacific division in October 2021. Johor Bahru is its sixth. In 2022, Stack teamed up with ESR Group in order to develop data center campuses in Seoul and Osaka. Stack partnered up with Oaktree Capital Management in the same year for a Tokyo-based project. It also established presences both in Canberra and Melbourne.
Melbourne, Tokyo, and Seoul projects are operational. The Osaka data center is expected to be completed in the second quarter this year. BDx Expands In Indonesia
According to a Knight Frank report from December, Malaysia was Southeast Asia’s leading data centre hub outside Singapore with a take-up rate of 429 Megawatts per year. Indonesia came in second with 93 Megawatts, according to the report.
Regional data centre player BDx announced this week that it had made a new contribution to the digital infrastructure of Southeast Asia’s largest nation by launching its fifth facility, a 15MW in southern Jakarta.
BDx, the largest data center operator in Indonesia, announced that it aims to build 12 additional data centres in the country over the next few years with a capacity of 250 MW.
In January last year, BDx, backed by Miami-based infrastructure firm I Squared Capital announced plans for its Jakarta unit to purchase a data center portfolio from its joint-venture partner, Indonesian telecommunications company Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison for IDR 2,63 billion ($170 millions). While BDx Indonesia is yet to announce the completion of this deal, Indosat data centers are now listed as one of its facilities.
