KUALA LUMPUR, November 04, 2026 (DAILYNWZ) — Google plans to invest $15 billion in Malaysia over 2027 and 2028, expanding its data centre network while supporting clean energy, water security and workforce training, the Alphabet unit said on Wednesday.
The investment will fund new data centre campuses in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, adding to Google’s first Malaysian campus at Elmina Business Park in Selangor, which is already operational.
The company said the construction phase of the new campuses is expected to contribute an average of $1.1 billion annually to Malaysia’s gross domestic product and support more than 37,000 local jobs each year.
Once the facilities are running, they are projected to sustain more than 9,000 jobs annually, with average wages 45% above the national median, Google said.
The expansion will also involve energy infrastructure. Google plans to add more than 1 gigawatt of clean energy capacity to Malaysia’s national grid, as demand for electricity rises alongside the development of its data centre operations.
The company said it would pay for all the electricity consumed by its campuses, as well as the direct infrastructure costs needed to connect them to the grid. It added that the projects would comply with applicable Malaysian regulations.
“This investment aligns with Malaysia’s development priorities, providing the foundational computing capacity to deliver the upside of innovation across the country while adding local power and water resources as our operations scale,” Ruth Porat, Alphabet and Google’s president and chief investment officer, said.
Water security is among the areas included in the investment, although Google did not provide further details on the planned measures.
The company also said its Malaysian campuses would operate with a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of between 1.12 and 1.14. The measure compares a data centre’s total energy consumption with the energy used by its computing equipment; a lower figure indicates greater energy efficiency.
Alongside the infrastructure expansion, Google announced four new programmes designed to provide skills training to 800,000 Malaysians over the next five years.
The investment adds to Malaysia’s efforts to attract large-scale digital infrastructure projects and strengthen its position as a regional data centre hub. Such facilities require substantial electricity, water and grid capacity, making energy supply and resource management central to the sector’s expansion.