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Kuching AI Data Campus

Kuching (Tanjung Embang), Sarawak, Malaysia · Sarawak & E. Malaysia market · location approximate to city level

Kuching AI Data Campus is a data center project in Kuching (Tanjung Embang), Malaysia. It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Record last checked against its sources on 20 October 2026.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Sarawak Government (PPP, partner TBD)
Local developer
AI workloads
Likely
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

Sarawak & E. Malaysia holds 3 active projects with 17 MW of planned IT load between them, and Kuching AI Data Campus has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 1 is at the land and permitting stage and 2 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for Sarawak & E. Malaysia, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Named funding comes from Sarawak state government 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 6 October 2026, and last checked the record on 20 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

StatusLikely

stated AI data campus purpose (pre-feasibility)

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 (120 ha) · AnnouncedSize not published

Who is behind it

OperatorSarawak Government (PPP, partner TBD) · Local developer
Funder, EquitySarawak state government

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.

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.

Build, land, power and water
Nothing found in public sources yet. Most contractors and utilities never name their data centre clients. Know who built it or where its power comes from? Tell us.

Sources checked 2026-10-20

  1. theborneopost.com
  2. theedgemalaysia.com
  3. S'wak setting up Kuching data campus as foundation for its AI Grid (The Star, 2026-10-05)
  4. Kuching AI Data Campus to drive Sarawak's AI push (The Star, 2026-10-06)

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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.