Google plans to invest $15 billion in Malaysia over 2027 and 2028 to build data centres and other infrastructure, expanding on a $2 billion investment announced in 2024. The company pledged that its Malaysian campuses will be energy-efficient, bolster local water security, add more than one gigawatt of clean energy capacity to the national grid, and sustain more than 9,000 local jobs per year. Malaysia accounts for more than half of under-construction data centre capacity in Southeast Asia, according to DC Byte, but the deputy prime minister told parliament in July that data centres could take up one-third of the country's total energy consumption by 2035. In October, a Finnish authority ordered work halted at two of Google's data centre sites in the country until mandatory environmental impact assessments are completed.
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