Vantage Information Facilities has damaged floor on its second Cyberjaya campus (KUL2) in Malaysia. Set on 35 acres of land adjoining to Vantage’s present campus (KUL1), KUL2 will ship 256MW of IT capability at full build-out to help cloud adoption and the expansion of synthetic intelligence (AI). The campus has its personal devoted substation offering prospects unrivalled enlargement flexibility and pace.
This important milestone was celebrated right now with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by Malaysian authorities companies and native companions, together with:
YB Senator Tengku Datuk Seri Utama Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, Minister of Funding, Commerce & Business, Malaysia
YB Gobind Singh Deo, Minister of Digital, Malaysia
Sikh Shamsul Ibrahim Sikh Abdul Majid, Chief Government Officer, Malaysian Funding Growth Authority (MIDA)
Dato’ Romli bin Ishak, Chairman, Cyberview Sdn Bhd (Cyberview)
Kamarul Ariffin Abdul Samad, Chief Government Officer, Cyberview
Hasmarizal Bin Hassan, Chief Grid Officer, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB)
“As we speak marks a major milestone for Vantage APAC. Our KUL2 growth strengthens our market-leading place in Malaysia whereas contributing to the nation’s digital economic system,” stated Raymond Tong, President of Vantage’s APAC enterprise. “We’re grateful for the great help and help from numerous authorities companies and native companions in empowering our continued progress journey in Malaysia.”
Following final 12 months’s announcement to speculate an extra deliberate US$3 billion (RM $13.32 billion) into Malaysia, Vantage executed an settlement with Cyberview, the tech hub developer of Cyberjaya, to safe land to construct the biggest hyperscale information middle campus within the metropolis. The multi-facility campus, designed to help each cloud and high-density computing deployments, will supply prospects the pliability to deal with evolving market and technical wants. Mixed with KUL1, Vantage could have 287MW of IT capability in Malaysia as soon as each campuses are absolutely developed.
YB Senator Tengku Datuk Seri Utama Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, Minister of Funding, Commerce and Business (MITI), remarked “We warmly welcome Vantage Information Facilities’ plan to construct an AI-ready information middle at their KUL2 campus, a strategic transfer that won’t solely help Malaysia’s AI aspirations but in addition drive financial progress, create new job alternatives, and propel the nation’s digital transformation ahead.
“Because the ‘coronary heart, lungs and nerve cells’ of the digital revolution, information facilities facilitate the beginning or enlargement of common financial exercise. Along with cloud know-how and community infrastructure, information facilities make up the web spine underpinning digitalization as we all know it right now. This has, amongst others, enabled small companies to thrive, whereas closing the worldwide socio-economic hole. Malaysia has the sting to facilitate extra information facilities, significantly AI-focused information facilities that might additionally help Malaysia’s goal to create 3,000 sensible factories by 2030. All these will assist Malaysia place itself as a number one regional hub for AI-enabled manufacturing,” he added.
YB Gobind Singh Deo, Minister of Digital, remarked ” Malaysia is wholly dedicated to accelerating its digitalization agenda and positioning itself as a frontrunner within the digital economic system, significantly in Southeast Asia, because the nation assumes the ASEAN chair subsequent 12 months. Sturdy and dependable digital infrastructure is acknowledged as an important element on this endeavor. A powerful digital infrastructure, which helps information storage and international connectivity, will likely be a key enabler in financial progress and innovation.”
Sikh Shamsul Ibrahim Sikh Abdul Majid, Chief Government Officer of MIDA, remarked “We’re completely delighted to welcome Vantage’s resolution to considerably broaden their information middle capability in Malaysia. This can be a main win for our nation’s digital infrastructure ecosystem, and it’s a testomony to the strong demand for high-quality information middle companies within the area. I’m proud to say that as a associate, we’ve been working intently with Vantage to make sure that their funding is a hit. We’ve offered them with complete facilitation and help, and we’re assured that they’ll be capable to leverage Malaysia’s distinctive strengths to realize regional and international excellence.”
Kamarul Ariffin Abdul Samad, Chief Government Officer, Cyberview, stated “With the enlargement of Vantage Information Facilities in Cyberjaya, we mark a major milestone that underscores Cyberjaya’s standing as a premier vacation spot for hyperscale information middle suppliers. This growth not solely reinforces town’s strategic significance but in addition displays our unwavering dedication to fostering innovation and technological development for Malaysia. By aligning with the federal government’s imaginative and prescient to propel the digital economic system ahead, we’re demonstrating our dedication to making a dynamic and supportive future-ready digital ecosystem in Cyberjaya.”
As well as, Vantage has signed an Electrical energy Provide Settlement (ESA) with TNB, Malaysia’s main electrical energy firm, for 500MVA-rated energy capability through a devoted 275kV high-voltage substation for KUL2.
“Underneath TNB’s Inexperienced Lane Pathway initiative, we’ve got streamlined the method of powering information facilities by bringing collectively all necessities for grid connectivity to be dealt with by our One-Cease-Centre (OSC),” stated Kamal Arifin A. Rahman, Chief Retail Officer of TNB. “The accelerated supply time for the undertaking is a manifestation of TNB’s customer-centricity. It additionally signifies TNB’s dedication to facilitate and hasten the method of powering information facilities.”
Rahman emphasised that aside from powering at pace, TNB’s grid infrastructure is able to delivering dependable, steady and safe energy at scale with the flexibility to provide renewable power sources for the rising variety of information facilities in Malaysia. “Given TNB’s key focus is to speed up power transition and handle local weather change, our help for information facilities will assist scale back carbon footprints, thus supporting Malaysia’s sustainability objectives and financial progress.”
