Vantage Data Centers said it completed a $1.6 billion equity investment into its Asia-Pacific platform, backed by an affiliate of Singapore’s GIC and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. The funding supports the company’s ongoing expansion across the region and enabled the closing of its acquisition of Yondr Group’s more than 300-megawatt hyperscale data center campus in Johor, Malaysia.
The transaction, announced in September, increases Vantage’s APAC platform to 1 gigawatt of operational and planned IT capacity across Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The newly acquired Johor site marks the company’s third campus in Malaysia and strengthens its capacity to serve hyperscale and cloud customers with proximity to regional hubs including Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.
“DigitalBridge’s vision and long-standing investment, now bolstered by new commitments from anchor investors GIC and ADIA, will drive our continued growth and expansion in the region,” said Jeremy Deutsch, president of Vantage Data Centers, APAC. He said integrating the Johor campus brings one of Southeast Asia’s largest and most advanced hyperscale developments into Vantage’s portfolio, reinforcing the company’s ability to deliver scalable infrastructure for AI and cloud workloads.
Vantage will also onboard more than 30 Yondr employees in the region as part of the acquisition. “We look forward to their contributions as we expand and support our customers in the locations that matter most,” Deutsch said.
The Johor campus, known as JHB1, spans roughly 73 acres inside the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone. Once complete, the site will provide over 300MW of IT load across three data centers, supported by dark fiber routes and strategic connectivity to major Southeast Asian markets. Originally financed via a green loan, the development incorporates sustainability-focused technologies such as direct-to-chip liquid cooling and is on track to meet EDGE environmental certification standards.
The deal signals rising investment activity in the region’s data center sector.
