Global investors are aggressively positioning around Asia-Pacific’s accelerating demand for AI-scale digital infrastructure, and Vantage Data Centers’ latest move is a clear signal of that momentum. The company has completed a $1.6 billion equity investment into its APAC platform, backed by Singapore’s GIC and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority- capital used in part to close the acquisition of Yondr Group’s 300MW+ hyperscale campus in Johor, Malaysia.
The transaction expands Vantage’s regional platform to 1GW of operational and planned capacity across Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong, placing the company among the most scaled operators in a region where cloud and AI workloads are growing faster than power and land availability.Â
The Johor campus, located within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone, strengthens cross-border connectivity with dark fiber access to key markets including Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand, an increasingly strategic advantage as Singapore’s capacity limitations continue to redirect demand.
Built on nearly 73 acres and financed through a green loan, the site integrates sustainability technologies such as direct-to-chip liquid cooling and is on track to meet EDGE certification. Once fully developed, JHB1 will deliver more than 300MW across three data centers, positioning Malaysia as a rising anchor in Southeast Asia’s hyperscale landscape.
For global infrastructure investors, the implications are significant: the competition to secure power, land and strategic locations for AI-ready campuses is intensifying, and sovereign capital is shaping the next phase of data center expansion across APAC.
Vantage’s consolidation of the Johor asset reflects a broader shift toward scale, speed and geographic leverage as the region becomes central to global compute capacity planning.
