AREA Group Delapan SBEZ Campus (ADCC) is a data center project in Bukit Kayu Hitam, Malaysia, operated by AREA Group. It is under construction. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: moved to under construction in October 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 18 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Tenant or own use.
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Penang / North MY holds 7 active projects with 432 MW of planned IT load between them, and AREA Group Delapan SBEZ Campus (ADCC) has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 1 is operational, 1 is under construction, 1 is at the land and permitting stage and 4 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Penang / North MY, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
It is the only AREA Group project ArusGrid tracks. It sits on the Delapan Special Border Economic Zone campus. Named funding comes from AREA Group (real estate PE) on the equity side. No user of the capacity is on the public record as of 2026-10-03, after a check of operator, landlord, contractor, regulator and lender documents. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.
The build is phased. Phase 1 (30 acres) is under construction with a 2025 target; Phase 2 (126 acres) is announced. The dated record runs from announced only in January 2023 to under construction in October 2024. The money on record is US$15bn as of January 2023, gross development value. Power comes from Tenaga Nasional Berhad through grid supply at 132 kV (reported, unconfirmed).
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 18 October 2024, and last checked the record on 18 October 2026.
Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.
no cooling/density/tenant signal published
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
Checked on 2026-10-03. 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.
This is the sales value of a property scheme. ArusGrid excludes it from data center spending totals.
The figure covers the whole campus.
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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