Gaw Capital Partners has formed a joint venture platform with A3 Capital to invest into greenfield and underperforming data centre assets across key markets in Southeast Asia.

The collaboration is aimed to create a portfolio of tier-3 certified data centre assets. The JV platform will also launch the Infinaxis Data Center platform, with a focus on developing internet data centre assets across Southeast Asia. The data centre assets under the JV platform will be managed by Infinaxis, staffed by a data centre team originally under A3 Capital. The JV platform’s first investment is located in Cyberjaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (rendering pictured), with other pipeline opportunities in neighbouring countries such as Indonesia and Singapore.

Cyberjaya is one of the largest internet data centre (IDC) hubs in Malaysia, housing 67 percent of the multitenant data centre market in Malaysia as of the second quarter of 2021. Considered the “Silicon Valley of Malaysia”, Cyberjay