Microsoft acquires land in Johor, Malaysia, for data center
Company buys land from Crescendo Corporation
April 05, 2024
By Dan Swinhoe

Microsoft has acquired a plot of land in Johor, Malaysia, likely for a data center.

Local property development firm Crescendo Corporation Berhad (CCB) this week announced it had sold a 102,560 sqm (1.1 million sq ft) plot of land in the Pulai area of Johor to Microsoft.

CCB’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Panoramic Industrial Development Sdn. Bhd., has entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with Microsoft Payments (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. for a cash consideration of RM132,471,276 ($27.9m). The deal is expected to complete in Q4 2042.

According to CBB, the land can only be used for a medium industry area for the purposes of data center and associated uses.

Microsoft announced plans for a Malaysian Azure cloud region in Kuala Lumpur back in 2021; the region is still listed as “coming soon” on the company’s website.

Johor, located in Malaysia’s south, is just across the border from Singapore. Though Singapore is starting to ease restrictions around its ongoing moratorium on new data center developments, Johor has grown a sizeable data center market of its own as developments overspill from the city-state.

Other developers and operators in Johor include PDG, AirTrunk, Equinix, Keppel, ChinData's Bridge DC, and Yondr.

Microsoft opened its Singapore Azure cloud region in 2010; the region has three availability zones. The company was selected as one of four companies granted permission to build new data center capacity in Singapore last year.

Crescendo Corporation has previously sold land in Johor to STT GDC for a data center development.

Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/...or-data-center/

Yes! A new Microsoft Azure datacenter setting up shop here is a game-changer for businesses. Faster cloud services, especially for those already using Azure. And a magnet effect for tech companies. This means more tech jobs in our region, even if the datacenter itself won't have a ton of openings.

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This post has been edited by ieatchickens: Apr 8 2024, 10:57 AM

Whose the main contractor that build the building?

SEA the next superpower!
shenzhen of SEA.
Bursa 2500 points in 5 yrs.


inb4 microsof dont bual hal ok. jaga sensitivity local.

Ktards will nevertheless still complain, will said it is low technical job.

But at the same time, protest boycott, said makdi and sawbuck job is important

Will this translate to more and cheaper server for us to rent?

Singapore happy

Cheaper server

👀🤭🍷🍟

Competition to put downward pressure on hosting costs is not a bad thing

This post has been edited by haya: Apr 8 2024, 11:28 AM

Tier 3 data center uptime lettew

wait long long, look at failed cyberjaya

All effort of madanon 👍

Thats why dont appreciate what madanon done...

Woohoo great to see more cloud providers open datacenters in Malaysia! I hope this will also improve our connectivity out of Malaysia as well.

Time to TP crescendo

ktard only interested if ringgit will go up or not

Where exactly is this Pulai location? Pulai is still big area

MYR dropping another 10% will attract more tech jobs than 10 more data centers. We gonna become another IT hub like India

This post has been edited by bashlyner: Apr 8 2024, 02:57 PM

I use OneDrive and Microsoft 365... So this concerns me.