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.
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Microsoft Southeast Asia 3 Region (Johor Bahru) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Regulatory | staleness decay | -20 | Microsoft Southeast Asia 3 Region (Johor Bahru) | Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-10-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Southeast Asia 3 Region (Johor Bahru) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Infrastructure | staleness decay | -20 | Microsoft Southeast Asia 3 Region (Johor Bahru) | Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-10-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Microsoft Southeast Asia 3 Region (Johor Bahru) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Microsoft Southeast Asia 3 Region (Johor Bahru) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Announcement | Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-10-01). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Microsoft Southeast Asia 3 Region (Johor Bahru) | Newest schedule evidence is 2025-10-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Announcement · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
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/
Data Center Dynamics · Nov 1, 2025 · backs: actual date
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-details-plans-for-cloud-region-in-johor-malaysia/
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Microsoft Source Asia · relevance 0.70
· Microsoft (APAC) · relevance 0.70