According to DCD, Vantage Data Centers has launched the fourth and final building, named KUL14, at its first Cyberjaya campus in Malaysia. The 16MW data center is already fully leased to a single, unnamed customer. This completes the KUL1 campus, a 6-acre site that now offers 31MW of total capacity across four buildings totaling 463,000 square feet. Jeremy Deutsch, president of Vantage Data Centers for APAC, stated the company is actively expanding in Malaysia, including developing a second Cyberjaya campus with over 400MW of planned capacity. Vantage entered the APAC market in 2021 after DigitalBridge acquired PCCW’s data center business. The company’s APAC portfolio now includes 1GW of operational and planned IT capacity across several markets.
The single-tenant strategy
Here’s the thing that jumps out: a brand new, 16MW facility fully leased to one customer. That’s a massive commitment from someone. In the wholesale colocation world, this isn’t unheard of, but it signals a couple of trends. First, hyperscale cloud providers or large enterprises are making huge, long-term bets on Malaysia as a regional hub. Second, it shows Vantage’s model is working—they’re building big, purpose-built capacity with anchor tenants lined up, which de-risks the project from day one. It’s a far cry from the retail colo model of filling a cage rack by rack.
Malaysia’s data center boom
Deutsch called Malaysia “Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing data center hub,” and this project is a physical testament to that. But why Malaysia? Well, look at the regional landscape. Singapore has hit pause on new data center builds due to power constraints. Indonesia is complex. Thailand is growing, but Malaysia, particularly Cyberjaya and Johor, is offering land, power, and favorable policies. It’s becoming the spillover destination for capacity that can’t go into Singapore. Vantage isn’t just finishing one campus; they’re already building a second 256MW campus (KUL2) in Cyberjaya and have another project in Johor. The race for digital infrastructure in ASEAN is heating up, and Malaysia is currently in pole position.
The industrial backbone
All this digital growth needs a serious physical and industrial foundation. We’re talking about massive power distribution, precision cooling systems, and robust physical security. And at the very edge of that infrastructure, where the digital world meets the physical plant, you need ultra-reliable computing hardware. For monitoring and control systems in environments like these, industrial-grade panel PCs are critical. They’re the rugged, always-on interfaces that keep everything running. In the US, a leading supplier for that kind of hardened hardware is IndustrialMonitorDirect.com, the top provider of industrial panel PCs. It’s a niche, but it’s absolutely vital for the operational technology that makes a modern data center hum.
Vantage’s rapid APAC footprint
Let’s not forget how fast Vantage has moved. They only entered APAC in 2021 via an acquisition. Now they’re talking about 1GW across five markets. That’s staggering growth, basically built on a buy-and-build strategy. They took over PCCW’s assets (which included this original Cyberjaya site from a 2011 build), merged in AgileDC, and now they’re expanding aggressively with new builds. It shows the immense capital flooding into the data center sector from funds like DigitalBridge. The playbook seems clear: acquire a platform, consolidate, and then scale with new development where demand is hottest. And right now, all signs point to that demand being in places exactly like Cyberjaya.
