Since the inception of its Cyberjaya master plan in 2020, Cyberview has continued to attract a series of exciting inflows of investments in its determined focal tech industries.
The master plan, mooted to transform the city into a vibrant and exciting global tech hub, has made Cyberjaya the preferred tech investment destination in Malaysia.
This is due to its offering of a robust tech ecosystem, with interconnections between academia, research and development, critical agencies, government stakeholders and the local community coming together to spur innovation necessary for national growth and advancement.
The master plan was developed with the objectives of creating value chains comprising leading industry players, local small and medium enterprises, and start-ups, all coming together to work in a collaborative environment and to establish a tech hub focused on emerging technologies such as robotics, big data analytics, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
The focus of the Cyberjaya master plan is to entice companies that embrace the collaborative environment and apply the mentioned emerging technologies in three focus areas - smart mobility, smart healthcare, and digital creativity.
Simultaneously, Cyberjaya’s offer of state-of-the-art infrastructure combined with the township’s expansive landbank has made it a global focus for developing the data centre industry.
Forming the central data spine
According to Arizton Advisory and Intelligence in August this year, Malaysia has become a preferred data centre location in Southeast Asia, with a forecasted growth of seven percent in the next five years¹. This would mean investments forecasted at an impressive US$2 billion, specifically from data centre players.
This increased interest is due to the country’s solid connectivity and high internet penetration - close to 90 percent². Malaysia is also a centrally connected internet hub, with 22 submarine cables attached through six landing stations³, forming a worldwide network.
However, Cyberjaya’s advantages would be its ability to offer exclusively available dark fibre connectivity, which allows speeds up to 10Gbps at reduced costs, and its 5G connectivity - one of only three locations in the country.
These advantages have made Cyberjaya the primary location in Malaysia for data centre development, with 14 established facilities contributing to around 75 percent of the country’s existing capacity⁴.
The most recent development in the area was by US-based Vantage Data Centres last September. KUL12 is a four-story data campus built on a four-acre piece of land in the township, and construction for KUL13 is already underway to meet their regional customer demands⁵.
With ESG values now being a prerequisite for investors, data centre players in Cyberjaya can leverage the Cyberview Smart City Action Plan, aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal, while also in tandem with the Malaysia Smart City Framework and Cyberjaya Low Carbon City Framework.
Also being pursued, is the adoption of green power generation project and renewable energy initiatives. In a recent development involving among early players in this space in Cyberjaya, a large-scale solar park is being developed by Worldwide Holdings Bhd (WWH), a subsidiary of Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS), in collaboration with Dynac Sdn Bhd.
Automating mobility with a sandbox
With Precedence Research in August 2022 projecting revenue of US$250.3 billion by 2030⁶ in the smart mobility market, it is little wonder why Cyberjaya has identified this sector as another focus area.
The township’s expansive landbank allowed it to develop sandboxing spaces and routes specifically for this sector. Through Cyberview’s subsidiary, Futurise, Cyberjaya is equipped with Malaysia’s first Autonomous Vehicle Testing Route and its first drone testing site.
These have attracted the likes of Yinson GreenTech, which teamed up with Cyberview to develop a smart mobility ecosystem for the township since August this year. This includes testing the eMooVit electric and autonomous vehicles, developing mobility-as-a-service, and introducing intelligent transport systems.
Meanwhile, the Aerodyne Group has made the township its primary location to provide drone technology, data technology and digital transformation (DT3) enterprise solutions. It offers services using drones coupled with remote sensing technology and artificial intelligence to offer precision agriculture systems, swarm intelligence systems for surveillance, and provides the usage of drones for delivery systems.
Turkish Aerospace (Tusas) has also started operations in the tech hub, developing its Skus Advanced Trainer Aircraft flight control computer. It has since signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Universiti Malaya (UM) and Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), providing the opportunity for ten students to complete their internships at their headquarters in Turkiye⁷. Having stated plans to expand their local team to 100 personnel, Tusas have recently expanded their base occupying about 12,000 sq ft.
Building up smart healthcare and digital creative
Meanwhile, Cyberview has also seen its township’s smart healthcare focus reach greater heights, starting with the completion and opening of Cyberjaya Hospital, the first platinum-rated government hospital under the Green Building Index certification built on close to 13,000 acres of land⁸.
The township has also signed a sales purchase agreement with Avisena Healthcare⁹ to develop a specialist hospital with smart healthcare components, further cementing its ability to draw investment from local healthcare players.
Globally, Cyberjaya has also become the chosen destination for Chicago-based Hematogenix’s first central lab for clinical research, making Malaysia the epicentre for the company’s cancer clinical trials in the Asia Pacific region¹⁰.
For the digital creative side, attractive prospects abound for the township. Local animation powerhouse Les’Copaque and Cyberview announced in May that they are exploring the potential of an Upin & Ipin theme park to be based in Cyberjaya¹¹.
At the same time, Monsta Studios has seen their animated series Mechamato peak as the 4th Best Anime at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival¹², with their Mechamato movie managing to rake in more than RM1 million on their opening weekend¹³.
The listed successes and investment inflows are just a fraction of the developments currently taking place in Cyberjaya.
Cyberview, as a tech hub developer, has shown that its master plan for the township is on the right track.
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¹Ariston Advisory and Intelligence, Malaysia Data Center Market – Investment Analysis and Growth Opportunities 2022-2027, August 2022. Link
²DataReportal.com, Digital 2022 Report on Malaysia, February 2022. Link
³New Straits Times, Strong legislation needed to protect submarine cables in our waters, November 2021. Link
⁴Ariston Advisory and Intelligence, Malaysia Data Center Market – Investment Analysis and Growth Opportunities 2022-2027, August 2022.
⁵Digital News Asia, Vantage Data Centers opens 2nd Cyberjaya Data Center with a third under construction, September 2022. Link
⁶Precedence Research, Smart Mobility Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, Regional Outlook, and Forecast 2022-2030, August 2022. Link
⁷Bernama, MIDA launches its Istanbul office as a gateway for Malaysia-Turkey crossflow investments, September 2022. Link
⁸The Malaysian Reserve, Cyberjaya Hospital to operate fully as public hospital with new health clinic, October 2022. Link
⁹Business Today, Avisena Healthcare To Open Second Multidisciplinary Healthcare Facility In Cyberjaya, November 2022. Link
¹⁰EIN Newswires, Hematogenix® Marks The Opening Of The First Central Laboratory In Clinical Research In Malaysia, July 2022. Link:
¹¹Digital News Asia, Les’Copaque, Cyberview explore potential of Upin & Ipin interactive theme park in Cyberjaya, May 2022. Link:
¹²Gempak.com, M'sian Animated TV Series Mechamato Voted Ranked #4 in Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2023, November 2022. Link:
¹³Bernama, Mechamato Movie rakes in RM1.1 mln on first day of screening, December 2022. Link:
