Asia Pacific hyperscale information heart firm AirTrunk has commenced operations in Malaysia, following the official opening of its flagship 150 MW information heart in Johor Bahru, named AirTrunk JHB1. The preliminary phases of JHB1 will present over 50 MW of capability for its giant expertise prospects. Spanning over 10.3 hectares, JHB1 is strategically situated on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula in Johor Bahru.
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Opening of AirTrunk JHB1
The corporate held an official opening occasion attended by Malaysian and Australian authorities officers and key AirTrunk companions. The event was accomplished in over 4 million work hours with no main security incidents, AirTrunk stated in an announcement this week.
Based on the corporate, the information heart presents sturdy home and worldwide connections to regional expertise hubs, together with neighboring Singapore, with an end-to-end cross-border connection technique.
That includes a Energy Utilization Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.15, the brand new facility contains an AI-ready design with AirTrunk’s first deployment of direct-to-chip liquid cooling expertise alongside conventional oblique evaporative cooling (IEC) and high-density racks, lowering vitality consumption by as much as 23 p.c.
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Partnerships and Inexperienced Power Commitments
In help of sustainability, AirTrunk has partnered with Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) to combine JHB1 into Malaysia’s vitality grid. This collaboration follows a 2023 memorandum of understanding (MOU) geared toward selling vitality transition within the area, the corporate stated.
Moreover, AirTrunk has secured a 30 MW Digital Energy Buy Settlement with developer ib vogt beneath Malaysia’s Company Inexperienced Energy Programme and has outfitted JHB1 with a solar-ready roof able to producing over 1 MW of energy. This makes it one of many largest onsite photo voltaic deployments for an information heart in Southeast Asia.
Malaysia’s Cloud and AI Ecosystem
AirTrunk stated: “The fast and secure supply of JHB1 is a pivotal step within the adoption of AI in Malaysia and AirTrunk’s development as a trusted associate for our prospects within the APJ area.”
“The brand new information heart helps the fast development of cloud and AI in Malaysia and aligns with the MADANI Authorities’s initiative to ascertain AI hubs within the nation. We’re making a long-term dedication to additional interact with the area people to construct a full AI ecosystem in Malaysia. The long-term and predictable demand from JHB1 additionally gives stability to underpin funding within the vitality grid and provoke a number of inexperienced vitality developments,” AirTrunk Malaysia added.
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JHB1 is a part of AirTrunk’s main Asia Pacific and Japan information heart platform, which incorporates 11 facilities providing greater than 1.4 gigawatts (GW) of whole capability.
