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# Vantage breaks ground for 256MW campus in Malaysia
- URL: https://www.techstories.co/vantage-breaks-ground-for-256mw-campus-in-malaysia/
- Published: 2024-08-06T17:38:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-08T17:41:43.000Z
- Description: KUL2 data centre will be larger than firm's total footprint in APAC.
- Author: Paul Mah
- Tags: Data Centres

Another data centre project just broke ground in Malaysia; this time a massive 256MW campus in Cyberjaya.

Vantage Data Centers says its new KUL2 data centre will support cloud and AI adoption.

**New data centre**

The KUL2 data centre campus in Malaysia is the 2nd most massive in Malaysia to date, only slightly behind Yondr Group's 300MW campus.

- Built on 35 acres of land.
- Vantage's second campus.
- Adjacent to its KUL1 campus.

When KUL1 and KUL2 are fully developed, Vantage will have 287MW of IT capacity in Malaysia. Yes, KUL1 is "only" 31MW - that's how large the latest data centres are today.

Vantage has also signed an Electricity Supply Agreement (ESA) with TNB for 500MVA-rated power capacity via 275kV high-voltage substation for KUL2.

FYI: This isn't your friendly neighbourhood power substation. The substation needed to step down from such a high voltage easily takes up a football field.

**Vantage Data Centers in APAC**

Vantage's APAC data centres span five markets. Apart from Malaysia, they are:

- Hong Kong (19MW).
- Australia (48MW).
- Taiwan (16MW).
- Japan (68MW).

As you can see, its Malaysia presence is on a trajectory to dwarf the combined total of its other APAC data centres in MW.

**Near vertical growth**

After years of lacklustre data centre growth, Malaysia has over the last few years experienced exponential growth that is putting it on top of charts everywhere.

As I wrote previously, as of Dec 2023, there are:

- 9 projects completed (635 MW).
- 8 projects electricity supply signed (2,259 MW).
- 50 projects at supply application stage (6,415 MW).

Read: [Johor prepares for data centre hypergrowth](https://www.techstories.co/johor-braces-for-data-centre-hypergrowth/).

Indeed, there are concerns that Malaysia's surging data centre growth could strain its power and water supplies in the coming years.

Read: [Malaysia's breakneck data centre growth could strain resources](https://www.techstories.co/malaysias-breakneck-data-centre-growth-could-strain-resources/).

There are even murmurs of a potential moratorium in Johor. For sure, policymakers are now scrambling to craft uniform planning guidelines for data centres. 

Read: [Johor scrambles to cope with data centre hypergrowth](https://www.techstories.co/johor-scrambles-to-cope-with-data-centre-hypergrowthjohor-scrambles-to-cope-with-data-centre-hypergrowth/).

**The road ahead**

In the months ahead, I hope to visit some of the hyperscale data centres in Johor and report back on them.

Stay tuned.