Google plans to invest $15 billion in Malaysia in 2027 and 2028, adding data centre campuses in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan to its operational site at Elmina Business Park, Reuters reported on 4 November. The spending will also cover clean energy, water security and worker training.
Google expects the campus building phase to add an average of $1.1 billion each year to Malaysia’s GDP, with more than 37,000 local jobs supported annually. Once the facilities are operating, the company projects they will sustain more than 9,000 local jobs annually, with wages averaging 45% above the national median.
Google intends to increase clean-energy capacity on Malaysia’s national grid by more than 1 gigawatt. It says it will pay for all the electricity its campuses use and the direct cost of connecting them to the grid. The company also plans four programmes aimed at training 800,000 Malaysians over the next five years.
