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Already operational, this regional hub marks a milestone in BlackBerry’s Apac strategy, positioning the company close to emerging technology centres and key government infrastructure.

In March, the state local government, housing, health and environment committee chairman Hilmi Abdullah was quoted as saying that KB Sentral is expected to be completed by 2027, with the state government having inked an agreement with a company to undertake the project.

The station was opened in 2001 with a capacity of 100,000 passengers per day after development costing over RM1 billion, but now handles some 200,000 passengers daily.

The guidelines are part of the government's efforts to ensure that data centres operating in the country meet sustainability requirements, including achieving the target of 70% renewable energy usage and net-zero emissions by 2050.

Combined with the main design and build contract, the overall project value will be RM15.

Reinvigoration of development projects in the data centre and Johor regions still has room to play out, despite the sequential slowdown in data centre contracts in the second quarter of 2024 (2Q2024), the research house said in a note on Thursday.

In a thematic report on Wednesday, the house said Malaysia’s DC inventory could be 10 times what the industry built over the past 20 years, positioning it significantly ahead of Singapore, which is constrained by land scarcity and environmental regulations.

RHB Research: "We are positive on its landmark JV with Singtel to build a 64MW DC (Phase 1) in Johor to capture the spillover of DC inventories from the island state.

The WCE project involves the development of a 233km tolled highway from Banting, Selangor to Taiping, Perak.

The network will connect landing points in Johor Bahru to “various developments” within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone, Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi said on Thursday during the Invest Malaysia conference.