Kuala Lumpur, 22 July 2024 – AIMS Group has launched a new data center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The DigitalBridge-owned company this week launched Bangunan AIMS (aka KL2) – a 7.5MW data center adjacent to Menara AIMS (KL1) in the Malaysian capital. The facility offers densities of up to 20kW per rack.

The company first announced plans for a new data center in Kuala Lumpur last year.

The facility is located in the former Bangunan KWSP building the company acquired in 2022. The retrofitted site sits within 100 meters of AIMS’ existing Kuala Lumpur data center. It was originally targeted for completion in May 2023.

The new site’s energy use is offset via hydroelectric renewable energy credits from Sarawak Energy Berhad via its Murum Hydropower Plant.

AIMS said it is the first data center in the region to provide 100 percent infrastructure uptime guarantee to its customers.

AIMS CEO, Chiew Kok Hin said: “Our aspiration of becoming the region’s leading ecosystem data center is on the right path. Based on current discussions with our customers, we expect Bangunan AIMS to be fully taken up by year-end.”

He continued: “We are also proud to share that Bangunan AIMS, alongside the rest of the Group’s data center assets, will form part of our larger commitment to ESG. In addition to the various innovations that we have implemented to ensure energy efficiency in our facilities, we were also successful bidders in the inaugural auction of renewable energy certificates (RECs) by the Bursa Carbon Exchange (BCX).”

AIMS DC offers colocation, managed services, and disaster recovery offerings from four data centers in Malaysia – two in Kuala Lumpur and Cyberjaya – as well as one in Bangkok, Thailand. On its website, the company has previously listed plans for three more facilities in Vietnam.

Previously a subsidiary of telecom company Time dotCom, AIMS was acquired by DigitalBridge in November 2022.

Having acquired AIMS in 2012 for RM119 million, rumors that Time was mulling a potential sale surfaced in March 2022. Companies including I Squared Capital-owned BDx, Stonepeak-backed Digital Edge, Temasek Holdings’ STT GDC, Equinix, KKR, and Tower Capital Asia were all listed as potential suitors for AIMS.

Credit: Data Center Dynamics