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YTL Green Data Center Park (Kulai)

YTL Green Data Center Park (Kulai)

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: Malaysia — Johor (Johor-Singapore SEZ)

Kulai, Johor — Malaysia's first solar-powered integrated DC park (500MW campus design; 500MW on-site solar + 600MW grid backup). First 72MW building (anchor: Sea Ltd per launch reporting); Nvidia GB200 AI cloud commissioned Oct 2025; GDS/DayOne runs 168MW across 8 buildings within the park.

Capacity
500 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

58.5 /100
58.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

65 /100
65/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

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.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Infrastructure baseline 70 YTL Green Data Center Park (Kulai) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Capital baseline 40 YTL Green Data Center Park (Kulai) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2025-10-01 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 YTL Green Data Center Park (Kulai) 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 YTL Green Data Center Park (Kulai) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 YTL Green Data Center Park (Kulai) Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-11-03 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 YTL Green Data Center Park (Kulai) 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 (2022-04-21).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Commissioning Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-10-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 YTL Green Data Center Park (Kulai) 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).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Commissioning

    Achieved

    Commissioning · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
YTL Power International
Developer

Sources & citations

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.

  1. YTL Power · Apr 21, 2022 · backs: actual date, capacity mw

    https://www.ytl.com/press-releases/ytl-green-data-center-park-launches-in-johor-the-first-integrated-data-center-park-powered-by-renewable-solar-energy-in-malaysia-2/

  2. W.Media · Nov 3, 2025 · backs: actual date, status

    https://w.media/ytl-power-completes-nvidia-powered-ai-data-centre-in-johor/

Signals

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

  1. · The Star · relevance 0.70

  2. · W.Media · relevance 0.90

  3. · Free Malaysia Today · relevance 0.90

  4. · YTL Power · relevance 0.85