Pranav Hotkar
Johor Bahru, Malaysia - December 9, 2025 - Empyrion Digital has formally unveiled MY1, a large-scale hyperscale data-centre campus in Nusajaya, Johor, marking the company’s largest regional investment to date and a rare example of a power-allocated project approved during Malaysia’s current data-centre moratorium.
The company’s official release confirms the campus sits on a 34.9-acre site within the SiLC industrial cluster and will be delivered in phased builds totalling just over 200 MW of IT capacity across five 40 MW facilities.
Empyrion says the project has secured an Electricity Supply Agreement and clearances from the national Data Centre Task Force, approvals that industry players note are increasingly hard to obtain as regulators tighten land and power allocations. Initial power allocation to the campus totals 145 MW from Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), with first energisation planned for September 2026 and a “ready-for-service” target in Q4 2026 for phase one.
The campus design prioritises efficiency and AI readiness: Empyrion states liquid-cooled modules will target a PUE below 1.30, while air-cooled sections aim for PUEs under 1.40. The company also outlined plans to phase in long-term power-purchase agreements to progressively source renewable energy for part of the site’s load, reflecting a growing industry emphasis on decarbonising energy-intensive computing.
Connectivity is a central commercial proposition. MY1 will be integrated with Empyrion’s regional network and its affiliate connectivity platform under Seraya Partners’ AQX Digital Infrastructure to provide direct, low-latency routes into Singapore and the firm’s SG1 facility. That cross-border linkage is intended to enable multi-site deployments for cloud, AI training, and latency-sensitive inference, while providing redundancy without relying solely on third-party carriers.
Empyrion framed the Johor build as delivering “scalable, green-by-design and AI-ready infrastructure” for customers pushing high-performance and latency-sensitive workloads across Southeast Asia. The company’s announcement follows its recent expansion across APAC markets, including Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei and Bangkok, and positions MY1 as a strategic node that helps relieve capacity and power constraints in neighbouring Singapore.
MY1’s launch underscores Johor’s accelerating role as a regional hyperscale hub: as cloud and AI demand reshape requirements for power, cooling and interconnection, projects that combine land, power allocation and cross-border connectivity will be the most commercially valuable. Empyrion’s MY1 is positioned to be one of the first large campuses in Malaysia capable of servicing that next wave of compute demand.
