Bitdeer AI Johor campus (A201, A202) is a data center project in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. It is planned for 87 MW of IT load.
Latest change on record: entered the record as announced on 14 September 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 22 October 2026.
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Johor holds 43 active projects with 4,880 MW of planned IT load between them, and Bitdeer AI Johor campus (A201, A202) ranks 21th by planned capacity. Of those, 3 are operational, 9 are operational and expanding, 11 are under construction, 1 is past financial close, 5 are at the land and permitting stage and 14 are announced only. Published colocation vacancy in Johor was 0.7% as of June 2026, on 897 MW of operational colocation capacity as counted by Cushman & Wakefield. Vacancy excludes hyperscaler self-build.
The named user of the compute is Bitdeer AI (confirmed).
The build is phased. A201 at 22 MW is announced with a 2027 target; A202 at 65 MW is announced with a 2027 target. The stage was recorded as announced only on 14 September 2026. Cooling uses direct liquid cooling.
Grid power for a large industrial user in Malaysia costs about US$0.14 per kWh as of July 2025, the country figure ArusGrid applies where a site has no published rate. The US export control position for advanced AI chips in Malaysia, as of 27 September 2026, is recorded as “No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced”. ArusGrid holds 4 public sources for this project, the latest dated 14 October 2026, and last checked the record on 22 October 2026.
Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Leased by Bitdeer AI, a GPU cloud operator, for its AI cloud under a 10-year data centre services agreement. No site-level cooling or rack disclosure.
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 are published on the Methodology page.
No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced · No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced (2026-09-27) source
87 MW · A201 21.7MW (live) plus A202 65.1MW under a ten-year data centre services agreement, energisation Q3 2027; A201 over 70% off-take committed to unnamed customers · as of 2026-09-30
Bitdeer's own release of 2026-09-14 announces the ten-year agreement for the 65.1MW A202 facility at its existing Johor Bahru campus, taking the campus to 86.8MW; 2026-09-30 announces off-take commitments of more than 70% of A201's 21.7MW with over US$1.7bn expected revenue over five years. Landlord and off-takers are not named in either release.
Source · Bitdeer AI Secures 65.1MW A202 Facility at Its Existing Johor, Malaysia Campus; Estimated Active AI Cloud Pipeline Surpasses $7 Billion (Bitdeer Technologies Group, 2026-09-14)
Source · Bitdeer AI Further Expands AI Cloud Services with Off-take Commitments of more than 70% of Its 21.7MW A201 Malaysia Data Center (GlobeNewswire via Manila Times, 2026-09-30)
No figure has been announced. This range is 87 MW of planned IT load times a published benchmark of US$11.37 per watt for Malaysia, plus or minus 15 percent, with 10 percent more at the top for liquid cooling because the project is AI-positioned. It covers the building and its mechanical and electrical plant. It excludes land, grid works, servers and fees.
Benchmark: Turner & Townsend Data Centre Construction Cost Index 2025, as reported by Data Storage Asia. An estimate is never added to any total on the site.
Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.
No published price band exists for Malaysia, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.
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