CYBERJAYA: Artificial intelligence now accounts for more than 80% of Equinix’s deployments as demand for AI-ready infrastructure accelerates across the region, according to Equinix Malaysia managing director Cheam Tat Inn.
“For Equinix, more than 80% of our deployments currently are AI related,” he told a media briefing at the company’s KL1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre here today.
Cheam said the trend is reshaping demand for digital infrastructure and accelerating investments in AI-ready capacity across Southeast Asia.
“I think as an industry-wide, Johor is evolving into, I would say, Johor today is kind of like the AI hub in the region,” he said.
He attributed Johor’s growing importance to the concentration of hyperscale capacity and AI-ready infrastructure being developed in the state, as well as its close proximity to Singapore.
“So where there’s lots of hyperscale capacity, lots of AI-ready infrastructure, with very close proximity to Singapore. So that gives you the regional interconnection that you need,” he said.
Cheam attributed Johor’s growing importance to the concentration of hyperscale capacity and AI-ready infrastructure being developed in the state, as well as its close proximity to Singapore.
“So that gives you the regional interconnection that you need, the low latency to a very established digital ecosystem in Singapore,” he said.
Equinix is investing more than US$190 million in its upcoming KL2 facility in Cyberjaya, which will incorporate direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology designed to support high-density AI infrastructure while improving energy and water efficiency.
