Malaysia’s Emerging Trends in Data Center: Identifying Tomorrow’s Hotspots

Malaysia’s Emerging Trends in Data Center: Identifying Tomorrow’s Hotspots

Billy Lee Kok Chi
CSF Advisers Sdn Bhd

1. Malaysia Data Center
Landscape - Where is
The next hotspot to
Place your fiber node?
Billy Lee Kok Chi,
Chairman & CEO of
CSF ADVISERS SDN BHD

3. Data input via public news, websites,
and virtual/physical site verification
Data classification based on discussion
with various industrial third-party
sources.
Exclusion of non-purpose build data
center development except for
interconnect DC
Exclusion of in-house enterprise
data center

11. Substantial growth in both central and
southern regional.
Wholesale DC dominates southern
region mainly due to super low latency
access to Singapore.
Most Colo and Hyperscale in central
regional setup with close proximity
to exisOng interconnect DC.
Dark fiber access is a key for site
selection for Hyperscale.
New development on northern region
could spur a different playing fields to
northern and regional traffic.
East Malaysia is seen to have many
new development interest but
yet finalize.
New development at north, central,
southern region may requires new
subsea cable landing to support new
growth requirement.