Pranav Hotkar
Johor, Malaysia, November 23, 2025- Vantage Data Centers said today it has completed a USD 1.6 billion equity investment into its Asia-Pacific platform, led by GIC and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), and used part of the funding to acquire Yondr Group’s 300 MW-plus hyperscale data center campus in Johor.
The deal expands Vantage’s APAC footprint to approximately 1 gigawatt of planned and operational IT capacity across five markets, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Jeremy Deutsch, President of Vantage APAC, described the acquisition of the Johor campus, now called JHB1, as “a major step” in building out scalable infrastructure for AI and cloud customers. He added that 30-plus Yondr APAC team members are now part of the Vantage organization.
The JHB1 campus spans nearly 73 acres and is designed to deliver over 300 MW of capacity through three data centers once fully built out. Located in the Johor–Singapore Special Economic Zone, it benefits from dark-fibre routes and strong regional connectivity.
Vantage emphasized the campus’s sustainability credentials: the original green-loan financing, plans for direct-to-chip liquid cooling, and its alignment with EDGE certification targets.
From the investors’ perspective, GIC’s Chief Investment Officer of Infrastructure, Boon Chin Hau, said the investment supports “the growing need for scalable data center capacity” in Asia. Khadem AlRemeithi, Executive Director at ADIA, added that the funding underpins the fund’s strategy to back digital infrastructure amid surging AI demand.
Analysts see this as Vantage positioning itself aggressively for the next wave of AI infrastructure growth. By locking in a large greenfield campus in a strategically located market like Johor, close to Singapore, the company looks to offer high-scale, sustainability-focused capacity in a region that is seeing increasing demand for cloud and AI compute.
