Data Centre Magazine September 2025 | Page 17

TA CENTRE INDUSTRY

MAJOR DRIVERS

IoT adoption Rising cloud use 5G deployment

AI

Digital content consumption

780TWh

Electricity consumption by Asia’ s top six data centre markets( Chinese Mainland, Japan, Australia, India, Singapore and Korea) is expected to rise from 320TWh in 2024 to nearly 780TWh by 2030

Source: PwC

ONE TO WATCH: MALAYSIA

Malaysia has the largest data centre development pipeline in Southeast Asia( 2.4GW), with Johor as the fastest-growing hub, expanding 4.5 times its capacity in early 2025

Source: ASEAN Centre for Energy datacentremagazine. com 17