Microsoft Nusa Cemerlang (Mukim Pulai) is a data center project in Iskandar Puteri (Gelang Patah), Malaysia, operated by Microsoft. It is at the land and permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Record last checked against its sources on 21 October 2026.
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How Malaysia approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Malaysia.
Johor holds 43 active projects with 4,880 MW of planned IT load between them, and Microsoft Nusa Cemerlang (Mukim Pulai) has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. 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.
Microsoft has 3 others in Malaysia and 10 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including Microsoft Eco Business Park I, Microsoft Eco Business Park VI and Microsoft Malaysia West Region (3 sites, Greater KL). It sits on the Microsoft Johor - NCIP campus. The named user of the compute is Microsoft (confirmed).
The money on record is RM567.4m (about US$125m) as of June 2025, the announced investment.
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 5 public sources for this project, the latest dated 17 August 2026, and last checked the record on 21 October 2026.
Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
hyperscaler self-build land (post-2023 = AI-era design)
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
Full site, 102,560 sqm in Mukim Pulai bought from Crescendo Corporation's Panoramic Industrial Development Sdn Bhd for RM132.47m · as of 2024-04-05
DCD reports Crescendo Corporation Berhad's Bursa-announced conditional sale of 102,560 sqm in the Pulai area to Microsoft Payments (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd for RM132,471,276, completion expected Q4 2024. Landlord filing names the Microsoft entity.
Source · Microsoft acquires land in Johor, Malaysia, for data center (DCD, 2024-04-05)
The figure covers land only.
Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.
An own-use build. No colocation price applies.
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