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Empyrion Digital MY1 data center

Iskandar Puteri (Gelang Patah), Johor, Malaysia · Johor market · location approximate to district level

Empyrion Digital MY1 is a data center project in Iskandar Puteri (Gelang Patah), Malaysia, operated by Empyrion Digital. It is under construction. It is planned for 200 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
200 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
Empyrion Digital
Colocation
AI workloads
Confirmed
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Leaning yes5 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Tenant or own use.

Your call. Will it be built?

Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.

How Malaysia approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Malaysia.

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. On record: named funder, dated, sized phase, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusConfirmed

next-gen hyperscale AI design per operator

Access to AI chips

GradeNo US licence required

This country carries no US destination-based licence requirement for advanced AI chips as the rules are enforced today. Access is a commercial matter between the project and its vendors. Criteria.

Phases

Bldg 1 of 5 (40MW each) · Under construction40 MW, target Q1 2027

Who is behind it

OperatorEmpyrion Digital · Colocation
Funder, EquitySeaTown Holdings (Temasek unit)

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-01. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Money at this site

ArusGrid estimate, building costabout US$1.9bn to US$2.9bn

No figure has been announced. This range is 200 MW of planned IT load times a published benchmark of US$11.37 per watt for Malaysia, plus or minus 15 percent, with 10 percent more at the top for liquid cooling because the project is AI-positioned. It covers the building and its mechanical and electrical plant. It excludes land, grid works, servers and fees.

Benchmark: Turner & Townsend Data Centre Construction Cost Index 2025, as reported by Data Storage Asia. An estimate is never added to any total on the site.

Land
Industrial estateSiLC Industrial Cluster, Nusajaya (estate operator not named in source) · 34.9 acres · Dec 2025 Confirmed source ↗
Site area only. Seller and tenure not disclosed.
Industrial estateSiLC Industrial Cluster, Nusajaya (estate; operator not named) · 34.9 acres · Dec 2025 Confirmed source ↗
Power supply
Grid supplyTenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) · 145 MW · Dec 2025 Confirmed source ↗
Long-term green PPAs mentioned, no counterparty · Initial 145MW allocation, energisation from Sep 2026 · Applies to the whole campus.
Grid supplyTenaga Nasional Berhad · 145 MW · Dec 2025 Confirmed source ↗
To be supplemented by other green energy providers via MOUs per w.media 2026-08-10. · Initial power allocation. Earliest energisation targeted September 2026. · Applies to the whole campus.
Water and cooling
CoolingHybrid air and liquid cooling · design PUE <1.3 (liquid) / <1.4 (air) Reported source ↗
Liquid and air-cooled halls; PUE target <1.3 liquid, <1.4 air
CoolingHybrid air and liquid cooling · design PUE 1.3 Confirmed source ↗
Liquid-cooled and air-cooled technologies.
Possibly linked
The source does not name the project, and more than one project we track fits. We show it on each of them and pin it to none.
UnconfirmedWest River Bhd · Grid and substation works · RM22.56m (≈US$5m) · Aug 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 3 that fit. The others are STACK JHB01, Digital Hyperspace Johor.

Sources

  1. empyriondigital.com
  2. datacentermap.com
  3. Empyrion Digital tops out Phase 1 of maiden data center in Johor (W.Media, 2026-08-10)
  4. Empyrion tops out upcoming Malaysian data center in Johor (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-08-07)
  5. Empyrion Digital launches 200MW data center in Johor (W.Media, 2025-12-09)
  6. Singapore firm Empyrion Digital gets regulatory nod to build 200MW hyperscale data centre in Johor (The Edge Malaysia, 2025-12-09)
  7. Empyrion Digital Unveils Johor's Newest Large-scale Next-Generation Hyperscale Data Centre Campus (Kosmo Online (PR Newswire), 2025-12-09)
  8. Kerjaya Prospek bags RM858mil data centre contract in Johor (The Star, 2026-09-03)

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