KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 (Bernama) — The ever-expending digital economy is driving the growth of data centers in Malaysia. Digital transformation of businesses into online businesses such as in retail, banking, insurance, and more are one of the causes. In addition, the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), video streaming, storage, and backups, 5G, internet of things, digital payment, and more are pushing data centers development into a gold rush of the 21st century. The growth of data centers in Malaysia (and surrounding region) is further driven by the spillover effect from Singapore. Singapore limited data centers developments after achieving a milestone of 7% of the nation energy being supplied to data centers alone.
It is common for big corporates to build and operate their own data centers. However, most other corporations chose to locate their servers with a co-location data center. We can imagine a co-locator as a long-term hotel for servers. Corporations rent spaces from these co-location providers. Organizations have shifted to co-locators because they can offer better security, redundancy, and services, while allowing them to focus back on their core businesses.