Inside Vertiv's Manufacturing Expansion in Johor, Malaysia

Vertiv is expanding its manufacturing network in Asia with a new facility in Johor, Malaysia, aimed at supporting data centre projects across Southeast Asia, North Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

The new site gives the critical digital infrastructure specialist additional regional manufacturing, engineering, logistics and deployment capabilities as demand for AI-ready facilities continues to grow.

Located in Johor, one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing industrial markets, the facility also sits close to major technology hubs and customer locations across the region, helping Vertiv support projects with shorter supply chains and local production.

Manufacturing for AI-ready data centres

The Johor facility builds, assembles, and tests cooling and power systems for high-density data centres.

Giordano Albertazzi, CEO of Vertiv, says: "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.

"This facility represents another important step in our continuous capacity planning and deployment strategy as we further expand our regional and global manufacturing capabilities."

The Johor operation is intended to strengthen Vertiv's ability to supply those systems from within the region, supporting customers building enterprise, cloud and colocation data centres.

Testing infrastructure before deployment

Alongside manufacturing, the new facility includes dedicated testing capabilities to validate equipment before it reaches customer sites.

Witness testing allows customers to verify that systems perform as expected in controlled conditions before installation, helping reduce deployment risks and avoid delays once infrastructure arrives on site.

The testing environment supports liquid cooling systems and integrated power infrastructure, including coolant distribution units across a range of capacities.

It also enables simultaneous testing of multiple power modules and power skids before shipment.

Giordano adds: "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."

Among the products manufactured at the site are Vertiv CoolChip coolant distribution units, which support liquid cooling technologies including direct-to-chip cooling and rear door heat exchangers for high-density racks.

Liquid cooling transfers heat away from processors more efficiently than traditional air cooling, making it important for AI deployments where power densities continue to rise.

The facility will also manufacture Vertiv Power Module and Vertiv Power Skid systems. These prefabricated power solutions combine modular electrical infrastructure into factory-built units that can reduce deployment times by up to 50% compared with traditional construction methods.

Another product manufactured at the site is Vertiv SmartRun, an integrated overhead infrastructure system that combines high-density busway, liquid cooling pipework, networking and containment into a single prefabricated installation.

According to Vertiv, this approach can reduce on-site white space deployment time by up to 85% compared with conventional installation methods.

Expanding regional capacity

The Malaysian facility extends Vertiv's manufacturing footprint at a time when investment in AI infrastructure continues across Asia-Pacific.

By locating production and engineering resources closer to customers, the company aims to improve delivery times while supporting complex data centre deployments.

The Johor site is expected to create hundreds of skilled jobs once it becomes fully operational in 2027, adding manufacturing expertise alongside engineering, logistics and deployment functions.

Vertiv's investment in Johor reflects the changing landscape and ever-growing demands of AI, bringing manufacturing and testing together in one location positioned to serve some of the fastest-growing data centre markets in Asia.