IN Brief:
- Vertiv has opened a manufacturing facility in Johor, Malaysia, to support AI and high-density digital infrastructure across Asia.
- The site supports power, cooling, integrated infrastructure, assembly, and witness testing.
- AI infrastructure growth is increasing demand for regional manufacturing, liquid cooling, modular power, and validated deployment capacity.
Vertiv has opened a manufacturing facility in Johor, Malaysia, expanding its regional capacity for power, cooling, and integrated infrastructure used in AI and high-density computing environments.
The facility will support demand across Southeast Asia, North Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Located in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing industrial markets, the site adds manufacturing, engineering, logistics, deployment, assembly, and test capability close to major technology and customer hubs.
The Johor operation supports end-to-end manufacturing, assembly, and witness testing for advanced thermal and power infrastructure. Vertiv says the facility is designed to validate high-density systems before deployment, reducing risk and accelerating time to capacity for enterprise, cloud, and colocation environments.
The manufacturing scope includes Vertiv CoolChip coolant distribution units for liquid cooling applications, including direct-to-chip and rear-door heat exchanger systems for high-density racks. The site will also support Vertiv Power Module and Vertiv Power Skid prefabricated power systems, alongside Vertiv SmartRun, an integrated overhead infrastructure system combining high-density busway, liquid-cooling piping, networking, and containment.
The facility is expected to bring hundreds of skilled jobs to the region when fully operational in 2027. A dedicated testing environment will support CDU testing across capacity ranges and simultaneous testing of multiple power modules and skids under customer site conditions.
Vertiv CEO Giordano Albertazzi said: “Asia continues to be one of the fastest-growing regions for AI and digital infrastructure investment, and expanding our manufacturing footprint in Malaysia aims to further enhance our ability to support customers with quality, speed, scale, and resilience.”
He added: “As compute requirements evolve across multiple generations of AI infrastructure, customers need partners to provide power, cooling, and infrastructure solutions at scale. The Johor facility enhances our ability to help customers deploy critical digital infrastructure more efficiently while supporting long-term growth across Asia.”
AI infrastructure growth now extends well beyond server procurement. High-density compute requires power distribution, cooling loops, prefabricated systems, busway, containment, flushing, testing, and field deployment to be delivered at the same pace as IT hardware. A delay in power or cooling infrastructure can hold back capacity even when processors, racks, and data halls are available.
Electrical architectures are changing inside the data centre as well, with 800VDC auxiliary PSU designs showing how AI infrastructure is pushing power conversion towards higher-voltage distribution and denser auxiliary supply stages. Vertiv’s Johor facility addresses the physical infrastructure around that electronics stack, where modular power systems, liquid cooling, and validated deployment processes are becoming central to build speed.
Liquid cooling is moving from specialist high-performance computing into mainstream AI deployment. Direct-to-chip cooling, rear-door heat exchangers, coolant distribution units, and validated fluid handling introduce manufacturing and test requirements that traditional data-centre infrastructure did not always need at scale. Cleanliness, pressure testing, leakage control, flushing, and commissioning now sit closer to the electronics deployment pathway.
Regional manufacturing adds another layer of resilience. AI infrastructure rollouts are capital-intensive and schedule-sensitive, while long-distance supply chains can add shipping risk, customs exposure, and slower response to design changes. Johor gives Vertiv additional proximity to fast-growing Asian data-centre markets and another regional base for power and thermal infrastructure production.
Power and thermal systems have become strategic constraints in AI computing. Faster processors and denser racks only translate into usable capacity when the surrounding electrical and cooling systems can be manufactured, tested, shipped, installed, and serviced at matching speed. Vertiv’s Malaysia expansion places critical infrastructure manufacturing closer to the markets where high-density compute demand is accelerating.
