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Microsoft Southeast Asia 3 Region (Johor Bahru)

Microsoft Southeast Asia 3 Region (Johor Bahru)

Announced
Probable

Jurisdiction: Malaysia — Johor (Johor-Singapore SEZ)

Johor Bahru area (land assemblies: Kulai 123ac, Tebrau 138.5ac, Nusa Cemerlang 22.5ac per 2024-2025 acquisitions) — Microsoft's second Malaysia cloud region, revealed Oct 2025 under the 2024 $2.2B commitment; no launch date; zero-water closed-loop cooling design.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

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Milestones

  1. Announcement

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    Announcement · Actual:

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Microsoft
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Sources & citations

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  1. Microsoft Source Asia · Oct 1, 2025 · backs: status

    https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/features/microsoft-to-expand-cloud-region-in-johor-bahru-empowering-southeast-asias-ai-transformation/

  2. Data Center Dynamics · Nov 1, 2025 · backs: actual date

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-details-plans-for-cloud-region-in-johor-malaysia/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Microsoft Source Asia

  2. · Microsoft (APAC)