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EdgeConneX Johor data center

Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia · Johor market · location approximate to city level

EdgeConneX Johor is a data center project in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, operated by EdgeConneX. It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. The published capacity figure is 160 MW, and its basis is not stated as IT load.

Record last checked against its sources on 10 October 2026.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
160 MW
unstated
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
EdgeConneX
Colocation
AI workloads
No signal either way
Evidence grade
Sourced
Will it get built?Long shot1 of 7 gates passed
○ Land secured○ Power arranged○ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Land secured.

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.

Where it sits

Johor holds 43 active projects with 4,880 MW of planned IT load between them, and EdgeConneX Johor ranks 13th 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.

EdgeConneX has 3 others in Malaysia and 2 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including EdgeConneX Cyberjaya Campus, EdgeConneX Bukit Jalil and EdgeConneX KL CBD. Named funding comes from EQT on the equity side. No user of the capacity is on the public record as of 2026-10-02, after a check of operator, landlord, contractor, regulator and lender documents. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

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 15 July 2026, and last checked the record on 10 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderYes
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

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 are published on the Methodology page.

US licence required for this destination as enforcedNo
A party headquartered in China or Macau on the projectNo
Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced · No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced (2026-09-27) source

Phases

Phase 1 · AnnouncedSize not published, target 2027

Who is behind it

OperatorEdgeConneX · Colocation
Funder, EquityEQT

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-02. 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.

Platform deals that include it

EdgeConneX Malaysia program
Country programme, 2023-09
US$2.0bn

Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

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.

Water and cooling
CoolingClosed-loop cooling Reported source ↗
Closed-loop non-evaporative, air heat rejection; ~7.6 million litres/day saved vs water-cooled
Possibly linked
The source does not name the project, and more than one project we track fits. We show it on each of them and pin it to none.
UnconfirmedJati Tinggi Holding Sdn Bhd · Grid and substation works · RM10.56m (≈US$2m) · Jul 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 3 that fit. The others are Microsoft Nusa Cemerlang (Mukim Pulai), STACK JHB01.
UnconfirmedParagon Globe Bhd subsidiary (not named) · Piling and earthworks · RM45.16m · Sep 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 3 that fit. The others are Bridge Data Centres MY07, STACK JHB01.

Sources checked 2026-10-10

  1. edgeconnex.com
  2. baxtel.com
  3. Malaysia’s AI data center vision: How EdgeConneX is building for the future (TechWire Asia, 2026-07-15)
  4. Data Centers in Malaysia (EdgeConneX)

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Planned MW is IT load, the power available to servers, unless marked otherwise. Running capacity is rarely published, so a missing figure means undisclosed. Definitions, sourcing standards and evidence rules are on the Methodology page. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0. Corrections go to corrections@arusgrid.com. Dataset updated 2026-10-18.