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NTT Johor Bahru Campus

Gelang Patah, Johor, Malaysia · Johor market · location approximate to city level

NTT Johor Bahru Campus is a data center project in Gelang Patah, Malaysia, operated by NTT DATA / NTT GDC. It is at the land and permitting stage. It is planned for 290 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 5 December 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 21 October 2026.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
290 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
NTT DATA / NTT GDC
Colocation
AI workloads
Confirmed
Evidence grade
Corroborated
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: Power arranged.

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 NTT Johor Bahru Campus ranks 6th 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.

NTT GDC has 1 other in Malaysia and 4 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including NTT GDC Cyberjaya Campus (CBJ1-CBJ6). It sits on the NTT Gelang Patah campus. 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.

The stage was recorded as at the land and permitting stage on 5 December 2024. The money on record is RM383m (about US$88m) as of August 2024, the announced investment. 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 18 October 2026, and last checked the record on 21 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderNo
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalYes
Dated, sized phaseYes
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusConfirmed

direct liquid cooling planned (DCD)

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

Building 1 · Announced48 MW, target Apr 2027

Stage history

2024-12-05Land and permitting · edgeprop.my

Who is behind it

OperatorNTT DATA / NTT GDC · Colocation

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.

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2024-08RM383m (about US$88m)

The figure covers land only.

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.

Land
Land sellerTropicana Corp Bhd (Tropicana Firstwide Sdn Bhd) · 68.457 acres · RM383.13m (≈US$86m) · freehold · Aug 2024 Confirmed source ↗
Buyers NTT Global Data Centers Holding Asia Pte Ltd and seven NTT Data subsidiaries; Gelang Patah; completion 1Q2026
Land sellerTropicana Firstwide Sdn Bhd (Tropicana Corporation Bhd) · 68.457 acres · RM383m · freehold · Aug 2024 Reported source ↗
Cash consideration. Buyers are indirect subsidiaries of NTT Data Group. DCD 2024-12-05 links the 68.5-acre Gelang Patah parcel to the 290MW campus.
Water and cooling
CoolingDirect liquid cooling Reported source ↗
Direct liquid cooling (campus-stated)
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.
UnconfirmedLeighton Asia · Main contractor · Feb 2026 source ↗
This project is one of 3 that fit. The others are STT Johor Campus, Princeton Digital Group JH1.

Sources checked 2026-10-21

  1. datacenterdynamics.com
  2. theedgemalaysia.com
  3. Japan's NTT Data to acquire over 27 hectares of land in Johor Bahru for new data centre (EdgeProp.my, 2024-12-05)
  4. Johor Bahru JHB10 (community page) (NTT DATA, 2026-10-18)

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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.