(From left) Rizal, Farhan, Teo, Loke, Gobind, Anwar, Porat, Zafrul, Amirudin, White and Shamsul Ibrahim pose for a group photo at the ceremony.
PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby Property (SDP) celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for Google’s inaugural data centre at Elmina Business Park, organised as part of its Mantap Malaysia Bersama AI event graced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
This hyperscale data centre will be customised by Sime Darby Property to Google’s specifications and infrastructure requirements and operated by Google upon completion.
“SDP is proud to establish Google’s first hyperscale data centre in Malaysia at our Elmina Business Park and would like to thank Google for the trust placed in us. Our venture into this new economy asset class with a leading tech giant positions Elmina Business Park as a top destination for global tech firms,” said group managing director Datuk Seri Azmir Merican.
SDP said Elmina Business Park's hosting of this state-of-the-art data centre marks the first major step towards becoming Greater Klang Valley’s Digital Hub. The park is designed to support the digital economy with critical infrastructure, including large-scale water and energy solutions. This development will attract additional data centres, large-scale manufacturers, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Upon full development of Elmina Business Park in 2035, the broader business ecosystem is projected to create 35,000 job opportunities to meet operational demands.
Google's data centre energy and location strategy global director Gary Demasi said: “We are pleased to have broken ground on our first data centre and cloud region campus in Malaysia at Elmina Business Park, and we look forward to further potential collaboration with Sime Darby Property as part of our continued efforts to advance the country’s goals of boosting its digital competitiveness and establishing itself as a regional hub for AI innovation.”
Also present were Communications Deputy Minister Teo Nie Ching, Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo, Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook, Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Utama Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, Selangor Chief Minister Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari, Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) chief executive officer Datuk Sikh Shamsul Ibrahim Sikh Abdul Majid, SDP chairman Datuk Rizal Rickman Ramli, Google Malaysia's Pakistan and frontier markets country director Farhan Qureshi, Alphabet and Google president and chief investment officer Ruth Porat and Google government affairs and public policy vice-president Wilson White.
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