Google's US$15b plan: Puncak Alam, Serendah, Port Dickson

Google will invest US$15 billion (about RM61 billion) in Malaysia in 2027 and 2028. Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, announced it on 4 November at the Mantap Malaysia Bersama AI event, with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim present. It follows the US$2 billion Google announced in May 2024 for its first Malaysian data centre and a Google Cloud region. That first campus, at Sime Darby Property's Elmina Business Park in Sungai Buloh, Selangor, is now operating.

Google's statement speaks only of new campuses "in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan". The Negeri Sembilan one, at Springhill Industrial Park in Port Dickson, was named in Google's water announcement two days earlier. Ken Siah, Google's Asia-Pacific global infrastructure principal, named the Selangor pair to reporters: EcoWorld's Eco Business Park V in Puncak Alam and UMW High Value Manufacturing Park in Serendah, both still at the planning stage. With Elmina, he said, they form a "strategic triangle", so services can move to another campus if one is disrupted. No opening dates were given.

Power and water

Google says it will add more than 1 gigawatt of clean energy to the national grid with Tenaga Nasional under the Corporate Renewable Energy Supply Scheme, and will pay for all the electricity its campuses use and the direct cost of connecting them to the grid. It already buys solar power under long-term contracts from plants in Gurun and Kulim, Kedah.

On 2 November it committed US$160 million (about RM651 million) to an off-river storage reservoir and a water treatment plant of 65 million litres a day in Negeri Sembilan, built by Gamuda, serving local communities and the Port Dickson campus. Ownership passes to the state's Menteri Besar Incorporated on completion.

Google expects the building work to support more than 37,000 jobs a year, and more than 9,000 jobs once the campuses operate.

The company behind the land

Bursa filings show the sites are bought or leased by Pearl Computing Malaysia Sdn Bhd (202201042907), incorporated on 17 November 2022 and wholly owned by Raiden APAC Pte Ltd of Singapore. The filings call it part of a US-headquartered multinational technology group; The Edge and DCD identify it as Google's.

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• Elmina Business Park, Sungai Buloh: leased, not bought. Sime Darby Property builds and leases data centres to Pearl on about 49 acres (agreed May 2024, rent up to RM2 billion over 20 years) and about 77 acres in Phase 2 (November 2024, rent up to RM5.6 billion over 20 years).
• Eco Business Park V, Puncak Alam: Pearl bought 58.187 acres of leasehold industrial land (lease to 2101) from EcoWorld for RM266.1 million, about RM105 psf; the sale completed on 22 December 2025. EcoWorld is also building data centres on 92.44 acres in the same park to lease to Pearl for 20 years, with rent of up to RM4.8 billion. Gamuda has the RM2.14 billion building contract, due in the third quarter of 2027.
• Springhill Industrial Park, Port Dickson: on 2 May 2025 Pearl agreed to buy 389 acres of freehold industrial land, converted from agriculture, from a Gamuda unit for RM455.2 million, about RM26.9 psf, plus RM1.01 billion of earthworks and water works. Gamuda had agreed in December 2024 to buy the land from West Synergy Sdn Bhd, a MUI Properties venture. Since April 2026 Gamuda has won four Port Dickson data-centre building contracts worth RM7.0 billion from a US technology company it does not name.
• UMW High Value Manufacturing Park, Serendah: no land sale or lease for Google's site has been announced.

The sale agreements list what the buyer needed: Ministry of Economy approval, or an exemption from its equity conditions, and state consent under section 433B of the National Land Code, which applies to foreign-owned companies. In Port Dickson, the local council's planning approval and contracts for water supply were also conditions.

Cover map: EdgeProp.