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Microsoft Nusa Cemerlang (Mukim Pulai) data center

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

Microsoft Nusa Cemerlang (Mukim Pulai) is a data center project in Iskandar Puteri (Gelang Patah), Malaysia, operated by Microsoft. It is at the land and permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting in November 2023.

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Stage

Land and permitting

Planned IT load

Not published

Running now

Not disclosed

Operator

Microsoft

Hyperscaler self-build

AI workloads

Likely

Evidence grade

Corroborated

Will it get built?Open question3 of 7 gates passed

✓ Land secured○ Power arranged○ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Power arranged.

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.

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How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. On record: committed or approved capital, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

hyperscaler self-build land (post-2023 = AI-era design)

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.

Stage history

2023-11Land and permitting · thestar.com.my

Who is behind it

OperatorMicrosoft · Hyperscaler self-build

Who uses the compute

Own use · hyperscalerMicrosoft · confirmed

Full site, 102,560 sqm in Mukim Pulai bought from Crescendo Corporation's Panoramic Industrial Development Sdn Bhd for RM132.47m · as of 2024-04-05

DCD reports Crescendo Corporation Berhad's Bursa-announced conditional sale of 102,560 sqm in the Pulai area to Microsoft Payments (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd for RM132,471,276, completion expected Q4 2024. Landlord filing names the Microsoft entity.

Source · Microsoft acquires land in Johor, Malaysia, for data center (DCD, 2024-04-05)

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2025-06RM567.4m (about US$125m)

The figure covers land only.

Platform deals that include it

Microsoft Malaysia program
Country programme, 2024-05US$2.2bn

Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.

Land

Land sellerCrescendo Corp Bhd · 2,620,000 sqft · RM315.17m (≈US$71m) · freehold · Nov 2023 Confirmed source ↗

Three vacant parcels, Nusa Cemerlang Industrial Park, Pulai; buyer Microsoft Payments (M) Sdn Bhd. Freehold per The Star, 17 Nov 2023

Land sellerCrescendo Corp Bhd (Panoramic Industrial Development Sdn Bhd) · 1,100,000 sqft · RM132.47m (≈US$30m) · freehold · Apr 2024 Confirmed source ↗

Pulai; buyer Microsoft Payments (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd; RM120 psf

Land sellerCrescendo Corporation (Panoramic Industrial Development) · 22.548 acres · RM119.8m (≈US$27m) · Jan 2025 Confirmed source ↗

Nusa Cemerlang Industrial Park, Pulai; completion by 2Q2027; turned unconditional Jul 2026

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.

UnconfirmedSunway Construction Sdn Bhd · Main contractor · RM1.16bn (≈US$261m) · May 2025 source ↗