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1 / 3Google commits $15 billion to Malaysia and promises to pay for all the power it uses×

The money

Google will spend $15 billion in Malaysia across 2027 and 2028, with new campuses in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan and more than 1 gigawatt of added clean energy.

The promise

It says it "will also pay for 100% of the power its data center campuses use," the same promise Hinojosa campaigned to impose in Texas.

The jobs

The company projects 37,000 construction jobs a year and 9,000 lasting ones.

Sources and the full story

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Google commits $15 billion to Malaysia and promises to pay for all the power it uses

Google will spend $15 billion in Malaysia across 2027 and 2028, with new campuses in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan and more than 1 gigawatt of added clean energy. It says it "will also pay for 100% of the power its data center campuses use," the same promise Hinojosa campaigned to impose in Texas. The company projects 37,000 construction jobs a year and 9,000 lasting ones. SourcesBB

Sources

• BGoogle to invest $15bn in Malaysia's data center expansion (Nikkei Asia)asia.nikkei.com
• BGoogle to spend $15 billion in Malaysia data center expansion (Bloomberg, read via Techmeme summary)bloomberg.com

This story ran in the Morning Brief of November 4th 2026.