On July 4, Malaysian Prime Minister YAB Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob launched Malaysia Digital, the initiative to accelerate the growth of the nation’s digital economy for the benefit of Keluarga Malaysia, and has awarded Malaysia Digital status (MD status) to the first batch of six companies. With its active investment in building high-quality data centers in Malaysia and its key role in accelerating the development of Malaysia’s digital economy, GDS was awarded MD status — the Malaysian government’s highest recognition for digital infrastructure companies, and a certificate was presented by the Malaysian Prime Minister on site.
Driven by the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia (K-KOMM) through Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), Malaysia Digital is a national strategic initiative by the Government to encourage and attract companies, talents, and investment while enabling Malaysian businesses and the Rakyat to play a leading part in the global digital economy.
The project has received strong support from the local government. Not only is the award of MD status being recognized by the Malaysian government, but it also creates more opportunities and confidence for the company to continue to improve and expand its data center strategy going forward.
Currently, GDS has successfully invested in the construction of two data center parks in Malaysia, of which the construction of the data center park in Nusajaya Tech Park, Johor, Malaysia has officially started in April this year
In addition, the Company has entered into a partnership with YTL Power in April this year to jointly develop four independent data centers with a total IT capacity of 112MW in the YTL Green Data Center Park in Johor, Malaysia, with the first phase of the project to be commissioned in 2023.
