In digital infrastructure, a launch is never just about opening a new facility. It is a signal to the market that execution, partnerships, and long-term infrastructure planning are in place. This makes Open DC’s D8-1 in Kedah crucial. Located in the Delapan Special Border Economic Zone (SBEZ), Bukit Kayu Hitam, D8-1 is more than a new data centre in Malaysia. It is a purpose-built, […]
In digital infrastructure, a launch is never just about opening a new facility. It is a signal to the market that execution, partnerships, and long-term infrastructure planning are in place.
This makes Open DC’s D8-1 in Kedah crucial.
Located in the Delapan Special Border Economic Zone (SBEZ), Bukit Kayu Hitam, D8-1 is more than a new data centre in Malaysia. It is a purpose-built, carrier-neutral facility designed to support enterprises, telcos, cloud providers, OTT platforms, and content players that need resilient infrastructure, ultra low-latency interconnection, and room to scale. D8-1 spans 47,000 sqft in Phase 1, with upgradable power capacity up to 20MW, IT load capacity up to 10MW, and rack power density up to 18kW.
At a time when Malaysia’s data centre market is being reshaped by AI demand, cloud expansion, and regional diversification, D8-1 gives customers a new way to think about growth: not only from the south, but from the north as well. Mordor Intelligence shows that Malaysia’s data centre market to grow from USD 5.48 billion in 2025 to USD 16.02 billion by 2031, driven by AI workloads, Singapore spillover demand, tax incentives, and expanding digital infrastructure requirements.
As enterprise traffic, cloud demand, and AI-enabled services expand across ASEAN, infrastructure strategy is shifting from simple capacity acquisition to location intelligence. Businesses want sites that improve resilience, diversify routes, support lower-latency access, and strengthen regional reach. That is where D8-1 stands out.
Located in Kedah at the Malaysia–Thailand border, D8-1 gives businesses a strategic northern foothold for digital operations, interconnection, and service delivery. Open DC developed the facility in partnership with MOF Inc’s wholly-owned subsidiary NGX Sdn Bhd, reinforcing the project’s role within the Delapan SBEZ.
Delapan’s proximity to the Satun and Songkhla cable landing stations gives D8-1 a clear interconnection advantage: faster access to international subsea routes, stronger path diversity across both coasts of southern Thailand, and a more resilient cross-border platform for carriers, cloud, content, and enterprise traffic.
For B2B buyers, trust is built on specifications, operating discipline, and ecosystem value.
D8-1 DC is TIA-942 Rated 3, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS certified. It features customisable N+1 cooling, UPS, and genset, underground fuel support, regulated environmental controls based on ASHRAE standards, multi-layer physical security, 24/7 on-site security personnel, 24/7 on-site SOC personnel, and continuous CCTV monitoring.
These details matter because customers are not only choosing rack space; they prioritize operational continuity. They are choosing whether their infrastructure partner can support growth without compromising uptime, compliance, or network resilience.
D8-1 is beyond mere facility. It is part of a broader infrastructure platform and home to the DE-CIX Internet Exchange. D8-1 is positioned less than 120 km from four key cable landing stations hosting 16 submarine cables. It is also connected to Open DC’s wider ecosystem, including dark fibre routes and regional interconnection assets across Peninsular Malaysia. Open DC’s northern dark fibre route extends from D8-1 to the Malaysia–Thailand border, helping support high-capacity, low-latency regional traffic movement into Thailand and the wider Indochina corridor.
For enterprises and service providers, that translates into practical business value:
Malaysia’s market is entering a new phase. The defining shift is no longer just cloud growth; it is the divergence between traditional cloud infrastructure and infrastructure built for AI-era requirements. Our insights indicate an increased rack density expectations, rising cooling demands, and a broader industry move toward AI-ready deployments as organisations prepare for high-performance workloads.
D8-1 is relevant because it gives customers a scalable foothold in an emerging northern location while remaining connected to Open DC’s broader infrastructure footprint in Johor, Penang, and Cyberjaya. Open DC’s platform is designed as an integrated ecosystem uniting network, data centre, and Internet Exchange infrastructure under one operating model.
As Malaysia’s digital infrastructure footprint matures, buyers are looking beyond the obvious hubs. Northern Malaysia offers a different value proposition: access to industrial growth corridors, proximity to Thailand, and a new path for enterprises that want resilience and interconnection without relying on a single geography.
D8-1 gives Open DC a stronger northern anchor. Open DC creates a platform for expansion into a corridor that will matter more as ASEAN digital trade, regional cloud adoption, and cross-border digital services continue to accelerate.
Open DC has built its footprint across key economic zones in Malaysia, with facilities in Johor, Penang, Cyberjaya, and Kedah. Across this platform, the company positions itself around carrier-neutral design, regional reach, and the integration of digital infrastructure layers that matter to modern enterprises. Open DC, the subsidiary of Extreme Broadband has over 21 years of proven experience and trust from more than 300 global and local organizations across telecommunications, cloud, and content sectors.
D8-1 DC is a testament that the next stage of Malaysia’s data centre growth will not be defined by capacity alone; but where infrastructure is placed, how it is interconnected, and whether it can help customers scale with confidence.
For enterprises, telcos, cloud players, and digital platforms evaluating their next move in Malaysia, D8-1 offers something increasingly valuable: a trusted, AI-ready, carrier-neutral data centre in Kedah that strengthens both resilience and regional reach.
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