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YTL Green Data Center Park

Kulai, Johor, Malaysia · Johor market · location approximate to city level

YTL Green Data Center Park is a data center project in Kulai, Malaysia, operated by YTL Power (YTL Data Center Holdings). It is operational and expanding. It is planned for 500 MW of IT load. The operator reports 150 MW running.

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Stage
Expanding
Planned IT load
500 MW
Running now
150 MW
Operator
YTL Power (YTL Data Center Holdings)
Colocation
AI workloads
Confirmed
Evidence grade
Verified
Will it get built?Built7 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

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

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. On record: named funder, disclosed client (confirmed), committed or approved capital, dated, sized phase, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusConfirmed

Nvidia GB200 NVL72 deployed, liquid-cooled (Oct 2025)

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

JDC1 (colo, Sea anchor) · Operational48 MW, target 2024
JDC2 (Nvidia GB200 AI DC, YTL AI Cloud) · Operational20 MW, target 2025
JDC3 (2nd AI DC) · Under constructionSize not published
JDC6 (built-to-suit MNC) · Operational40 MW, target 2025

Who is behind it

OperatorYTL Power (YTL Data Center Holdings) · Colocation
Funder, EquityYTL Power International

Who uses the compute

Tenant · enterpriseSea Ltd · confirmed

72 MW · Anchor, first phase 72MW (RM1.5bn) · as of 2022-08-25

YTL Data Centers' groundbreaking release, republished by MIDA, states 'With Sea being the anchor tenant for YTL's Data Center Green Park, the new three storey green facility will help reduce its carbon footprint'. Operator release carried by the investment regulator, Kulai site, first phase 72MW.

Source · YTL Data Centers and Sea Break Ground with the RM1.5bil First Phase of the 500MW YTL Green Data Center Park in Johor (MIDA, 2022-08-25)

Source · Singapore's Sea to be anchor tenant of YTL's Johor data center park (DCD, 2022-08-25)

Runs compute here · GPU cloudYTL AI Cloud (ILMU LLM) · confirmed

Nvidia GB200 NVL72 liquid-cooled supercomputer; ILMU, YTL's Malaysian LLM, named as the workload · as of 2025-10-31

YTL Power's own release says the YTL AI Cloud facility at the YTL Green Data Center Park in Kulai, Johor, powered by liquid-cooled NVL72 GB200 GPUs, is complete and runs ILMU, 'our Malaysian-developed and owned large language model', with government and citizen-facing AI services to follow. This is the operator's own subsidiary, entered because the workload is named; no third-party customer is named.

Source · Malaysia Accelerates Sovereign AI Ambition – NVIDIA and YTL brief Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at APEC Summit (YTL Power International, 2025-10-31)

Source · YTL Power completes NVIDIA-powered AI data center facility in Johor (TNGlobal, 2025-11-03)

Tenant · hyperscalerUndisclosed global hyperscalers · reported, unconfirmed

Four to five customers at the Kulai park, most of them major global hyperscalers. None is named. · as of 2026-06-29

The Star report on YTL Power's data centre segment.

Source · YTL Power stamping its mark on DC sector (The Star, 2026-06-29)

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2022-08RM15bn (about US$3.3bn)

The figure covers the whole campus.

Platform deals that include it

YTL-Nvidia AI infrastructure deal
Platform capital, 2023-12
US$2.2bn

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

Land
Land sellerBoustead Plantations · 664 ha · RM428.8m (≈US$97m) · Sep 2021 Confirmed source ↗
Five parcels, buyer SIPP Power (70% YTL Power)
Power supply
Grid supplyNational grid (TNB) · 600 MW · Nov 2025 Reported source ↗
500MW solar plant planned on site · 600MW from national grid as backup to solar · Applies to the whole campus.
Own generationSIPP Power (YTL Power) and TNB · 215 MW · Jun 2026 Reported source ↗
Co-located solar, about 215MW by end-2026 and 600MW long term · Applies to the whole campus.
Water and cooling
CoolingDirect liquid cooling Reported source ↗
Liquid-cooled Nvidia GB200 NVL72 systems (facility-stated)

Sources

  1. theedgemalaysia.com
  2. datacenterdynamics.com
  3. datacentermap.com
  4. thestar.com.my
  5. YTL Power and JLand Group Collaborate on New Gigawatt-Scale Data Centre Campus at Sedenak Tech Park (YTL Power International, 2026-08-19)
  6. Growing Optimism On YTL Power Data Centre Capability (Business Today Malaysia, 2026-08-21)
  7. YTL Data Centers and Sea Break Ground with the RM1.5bil First Phase of the 500MW YTL Green Data Center Park in Johor (MIDA, 2022-08-25)
  8. YTL Power data centre and solar play in Johor (NST news clip, citing RHB Research) (New Straits Times (TNB news clip), 2023-09-19)
  9. YTL Power speeds up data centre expansion as Kulai campus doubles to 1.2GW (New Straits Times, 2026-06-25)
  10. YTL & NVIDIA GREEN DATA CENTRE PARK @ KULAI - SEA DATA CENTRE (myBina)
  11. Potential data centre business listing fuels interest (The Edge Malaysia, 2026-10-05)
  12. CGS keeps 'add' call on YTL Power on data centre-driven earnings outlook (New Straits Times (TNB news clip), 2026-06-26)
  13. YTL Power completes Nvidia-powered AI data centre in Johor (W.Media, 2025-11-03)
  14. YTL Power's data centre set to pay off handsomely (The Star, 2024-12-10)
  15. Analysts expect YTL Power earnings to pick up after soft 4Q (The Edge Malaysia, 2026-08-21)

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