Digital Realty has marked its entry into Malaysia following an agreement to acquire CSF Advisers, owner of the TelcoHub 1 data centre in Cyberjaya.
One of Greater Kuala Lumpur’s most established data centre hubs, TelcoHub 1 is a highly connected dark fibre interconnect hub with more than 6,000 fibre cores and over 40 network service providers, and currently offers around 1.5MW of IT capacity.
The deal also includes adjacent land that can support up to 14MW of IT load, allowing room for future campus-scale expansion.
Expected to close in the first half of 2026, the acquisition extends Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL into Malaysia and adding Cyberjaya to a regional network that already spans key hubs such as Singapore and other Asean markets. It aligns with forecasts that Malaysia’s total data centre capacity will roughly double from 1.26GW in 2025 to 2.53GW by 2030.
“Our entry into Malaysia will bring our global platform, operational expertise and long-term investment approach into the local market, support the country’s digital ambitions, and help to shape how regional infrastructure is built for the future,” said Serene Nah, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific at Digital Realty.
For Malaysian businesses, this move brings carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation in-country to enable lower-latency access to global cloud and AI platforms while keeping sensitive workloads within Malaysia’s borders to meet data residency and regulatory requirements.
Regional enterprises using Malaysia as a secondary or complementary hub to Singapore gain a new interconnection-dense node that can support disaster recovery, multi-cloud architectures and AI workloads across Asean from a single integrated platform.
The Cyberjaya campus is expected to offer richer network routes and connectivity into submarine cable systems and other Digital Realty facilities in Southeast Asia, which can improve application performance for users in markets such as Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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