Google said Wednesday it will invest an additional $15 billion in Malaysia over the next two years to expand data center and cloud infrastructure, including new campuses, according to Malay Mail and a Bloomberg item highlighted by Techmeme^1,2.

Alphabet and Google president and chief investment officer Ruth Porat said the money would expand the existing campus at Elmina Business Park in Selangor and fund new planned campuses in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan². Techmeme summarized Bloomberg as saying the $15 billion would be spent across 2027 and 2028 on data center and cloud sites, including new computing hubs¹.

Porat, speaking at an event at Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, said construction in 2027 and 2028 was expected to support more than 37,000 local jobs a year and generate average annual labor income of $378 million². Google said the construction phase is expected to add an annual average of $1.1 billion to Malaysia's gross domestic product².

Once operational, the facilities are projected to support more than 9,000 long-term local jobs, with average wages 45 percent above Malaysia's median wage, Malay Mail reported Google as saying². Porat said Google was working with more than 80 Malaysian entities in civil engineering, power, networks and logistics².

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who witnessed the announcement, called the pledge a milestone in Malaysia's digital-economy plans and said foreign investment should also strengthen local firms, skills and resource management². He said Google would work with Tenaga Nasional Berhad to add more than 1 gigawatt of clean energy to the grid without public subsidies².

Anwar also pointed to an off-river storage reservoir and water treatment plant in Negeri Sembilan expected to supply 65 million litres of treated water a day, with ownership to go to the state government when complete². Asked whether Google had done enough on environmental concerns, he said the conditions had been imposed and accepted².

Google said the $15 billion builds on more than 15 years in Malaysia and on a $2 billion digital-infrastructure investment announced in May 2024 for its first data center and Google Cloud region at Elmina². Anwar also said Google committed to upskill 800,000 Malaysians by 2031 through four training programs².

Independent confirmation of the two-year spend, job and GDP figures was not in the coverage reviewed; those numbers come from Google as reported by Malay Mail, while Techmeme carried only the Bloomberg headline on the $15 billion plan^1,2.