{"id":11169,"date":"2024-03-12T06:51:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tradepassglobal.com\/?p=11169"},"modified":"2025-10-23T06:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:52:15","slug":"malaysias-strategic-alliance-with-uae-for-data-centers-reinforces-bilateral-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/blogs\/malaysias-strategic-alliance-with-uae-for-data-centers-reinforces-bilateral-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s strategic alliance with UAE for data centers reinforces bilateral ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kuala Lumpur, 12<sup>th<\/sup> March 2024:<\/strong> Amidst rising speculations, year 2024 has brought key growth opportunities for <a>data centers in Malaysia <\/a>landscape. Considered to be the country\u2019s second largest trading partner in the Middle East, United Arab Emirates will facilitate Malaysia in becoming ASEAN\u2019s most preferred destination for digital infrastructure investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With potential projects forecasted to enable 500 megawatts of data center capacity, Malaysia\u2019s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) <a href=\"https:\/\/economymiddleeast.com\/news\/uae-malaysia-digital-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has signed an MoU<\/a> with the Ministry of Investment of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to project Malaysia as a regional hotbed for data centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Industry experts suggest that the soaring demands from Southeast Asian SMEs will significantly uplift the country\u2019s status as a leading regional player in the digital economy. In that light, MITI\u2019s Minster, Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz earlier stated that Malaysia is poised to take home a substantial part of ASEAN\u2019s digital economy which is estimated to cross $1 trillion by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Possessing quite a futuristic angle, the MoU is considered to be in complete sync with the Malaysian government\u2019s New Industrial Master Plan (NIMP) 2030 which holds a special place for AI upgradation, wherein it\u2019s needless to talk about its reliance on additional data center capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Know where the industry is heading by becoming a part of Malaysia\u2019s premier data center summit, <a href=\"https:\/\/malaysia.dccisummit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DCCI 2024 \u2013 Malaysia<\/a>, scheduled to happen on 14 \u2013 15 May at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur, 12th March 2024: Amidst rising speculations, year 2024 has brought key growth opportunities for data centers in Malaysia landscape. Considered to be the country\u2019s second largest trading partner in the Middle East, United Arab Emirates will facilitate Malaysia in becoming ASEAN\u2019s most preferred destination for digital infrastructure investments. With potential projects forecasted to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11171,"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions\/11171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/43.205.9.160\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}