A 36-acre plot in Kota Seri Langat, Banting, just changed hands for a 210MW data center campus in Selangor, Malaysia. Data Center Dynamics' coverage names the buyer as Global Data Infrastructure Sdn Bhd, the data center arm of Global Telecommunications Group. The seller is COMPASS IP Sdn Bhd, a joint venture backed by state fund PNB, pension manager KWAP, and AREA Group. The sale closes out the last available inventory at the 220-acre COMPASS @ Kota Seri Langat industrial park. Approvals are already in principle, and construction starts as soon as the deal completes.
The site carries a 300MVA power rating against a 210MW IT load. That headroom, assuming near-unity power factor, works out to a design PUE around 1.4, covering chillers, pumps, CDUs, and switchgear losses. It's a number built for mechanical cooling, not free air.
Selangor sits three degrees north of the equator. Wet-bulb temperatures run high year round, and humidity strips out most of the gain evaporative and dry-air cooling offer in drier markets. Amazon hit the same wall building in Belém, another equatorial site where mechanical chillers ended up carrying the load that free cooling handles elsewhere. At 210MW, Global Telecommunications Group is building past the density where air cooling alone keeps pace, a threshold Indian operators are already redesigning racks around.
Approvals in principle mean the engineering choices are close to locked before ground breaks. At the rack densities AI training and inference now demand, that increasingly means liquid cooling delivered straight to the chip, sized as the primary heat rejection path from day one. Malaysia's monsoon rainfall pattern puts water sourcing on the same clock: a plan for reclaimed or treated makeup water for the cooling loop needs to exist before the first chiller order goes out.
Global Telecommunications Group hasn't disclosed a cooling vendor or a water sourcing plan for the Kota Seri Langat site. Given Selangor's wet-bulb ceiling and a 210MW target, the mechanical plant order, whether direct-to-chip CDUs or high-capacity chillers, is the next decision that matters, and it's due well before the first rack ships.