Malaysia wants to lure Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in its drive to be a data hub and as it positions itself as a neutral supply chain base amid rising US-China tensions, according to Trade Minister Zafrul Abdul Aziz.
“We are attracting as many as we can,” and “slowly establishing ourselves” as a data center hub, Zafrul said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin on Friday.
Malaysia’s investment success this year includes attracting companies such as Tesla Inc. and Amazon Web Services. Tesla plans to import its electric vehicles into the Southeast Asian nation and build a network of superchargers, while AWS will invest 25.5 billion ringgit ($6 billion) in cloud-computing infrastructure by 2037.
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