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AREA Group Delapan SBEZ Campus (ADCC)

Bukit Kayu Hitam, Kedah, Malaysia · Penang / North MY market · location approximate to district level

AREA Group Delapan SBEZ Campus (ADCC) is a data center project in Bukit Kayu Hitam, Malaysia, operated by AREA Group. It is under construction. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Latest change on record: moved to under construction in October 2024.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
AREA Group
Local developer
AI workloads
No signal either way
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, three or more sources. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusNo signal either way

no cooling/density/tenant signal published

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

Phase 1 (30 acres) · Under constructionSize not published, target 2025
Phase 2 (126 acres) · AnnouncedSize not published

Stage history

2023-01Announced · datacenterdynamics.com
2024-10Under construction · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorAREA Group · Local developer
Funder, EquityAREA Group (real estate PE)

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-03. 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

Gross development value, 2023-01US$15bn

This is the sales value of a property scheme. ArusGrid excludes it from data center spending totals.

The figure covers the whole campus.

Land
Land sellerNorthern Gateway Sdn Bhd · 30 acres · freehold · Oct 2024 Reported source ↗
SPA signed by AREA SPV Data Gateway Sdn Bhd for 30 acres, with an option on another 126 acres for phase 2. Price not disclosed. Northern Gateway is the master developer of Delapan SBEZ. Freehold per DCD 2023-01-06 on the original 150-acre parcel.
Power supply
Grid supplyTenaga Nasional Berhad · 132kV · Oct 2024 Reported source ↗
Site fed from a 132kV substation at Bukit Kayu Hitam about 3km away. TNB is building a second 132kV intake. A 275kV PMU is planned later. · Applies to the whole campus.

Sources

  1. Area Group begins construction of 156-acre Malaysian data center campus (DCD, 2024-10-18)
  2. areagroup.my
  3. AREA acquires 30-acre land in Delapan, Kedah to build data centre (EdgeProp Malaysia, 2024-10-11)
  4. Area Group acquires 150 acres for data center park in northern Malaysia (DCD, 2023-01-06)
  5. AREA acquires 30-acre land in Delapan, Kedah to build data centre (The Edge Malaysia, 2024-10-10)

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