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- YTL Power said the facility, powered by GB 200 GPUs, together with the large language model Ilmu, represent a major step forward in building Malaysia’s own sovereign AI.
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 31): Malaysia’s first Nvidia-powered AI data centre in Johor, developed by YTL Power International Bhd (KL:YTLPOWR) in partnership with tech giant Nvidia Corp, is now operational. With the launch of its large language model, Ilmu, the country gained one of the region’s first sovereign AI platforms for government and public services.
YTL Power announced the completion of its AI data centre, powered by Nvidia’s latest liquid-cooled NVL72 Grace Blackwell (GB 200) GPUs, in a statement.
The announcement followed a meeting between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Nvidia founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang and YTL Power managing director Datuk Seri Yeoh Seok Hong on Friday during the Apec Leaders’ Economic Summit 2025 held in Gyeongju, South Korea. Investment, Trade, and Industry Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz was also in attendance.
The company said it updated Anwar and Zafrul on the successful completion of YTL Power’s state-of-the-art AI data centre facility in partnership with Nvidia at the 600MW YTL Green Data Center Park in Kulai, Johor.
YTL Power said the facility, powered by GB 200 GPUs, together with Ilmu, represent a major step forward in building Malaysia’s own sovereign AI.
“Establishing our own sovereign AI is very important in developing a secure, trusted AI-enabled ecosystem. I congratulate YTL and Nvidia on achieving this significant milestone and hope it will accelerate the AI drive for the benefit of all Malaysians,” Anwar said in the same statement.
Zafrul said the government has allocated RM5.9 billion under Budget 2026 to strengthen Malaysia’s AI sector and position the country as a regional hub for AI innovation and data centre excellence.
Yeoh said the now-operational YTL AI Cloud will host government and citizen-facing AI services.
“With Ilmu and the YTL AI Cloud, Malaysia will be among the first in the region to benefit from true sovereign AI capabilities,” he said.
YTL AI Cloud will deliver one of the world’s most advanced supercomputers in Malaysia, powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture.
Located on a 1,640-acre site at the data centre campus in Johor, it runs on renewable energy from a 500MW solar plant and will support large-scale, high-performance AI and machine learning workloads.
Shares in YTL Power rose as much as 1.77% to RM4.02, before settling up 1.01% at RM3.99 on Friday. The utilities group, which saw 8.06 million shares traded, has a market capitalisation of RM34.63 billion.
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