EPG boosts China-Malaysia industrial ties to empower digital infrastructure

Amid deepening economic ties and booming regional digital infrastructure development, China's prefabricated modular data center firm EPG is scaling up investments in Malaysia.

With three factories in Malaysia, including one currently under construction, the company has evolved from following Chinese clients overseas to full-scale localization, emerging as a hallmark of upgraded bilateral industrial collaboration.

The company held the groundbreaking ceremony for its second Malaysian plant in 2025, attended by Lee Ting Han, chairman of the Johor State Investment, Trade, Consumer Affairs and Human Resources Committee, and other dignitaries. Government officials recognized the facility as a key engine for regional economic growth.

The $120 million facility, scheduled to test operations in the first quarter of 2027, will provide 70,000 square meters of workshop space, employ more than 800 professionals, and produce over 5,000 modular units annually to support up to 1,500 megawatts of project capacity.

"With this expansion, EPG is set to redefine data center innovation, delivering high-efficiency, sustainable and scalable solutions to meet the growing digital demands of Malaysia and beyond. The expansion is expected to significantly enhance EPG's production capacity and supply in overseas markets, as well as set a new benchmark for China-Malaysia economic and trade cooperation," said Wan Renjun, founder and chairman of EPG.

The company secured approximately $200 million through Series B and B+ financing rounds in quick succession, supporting the expansion of its global delivery network and overseas production capacity.

"Our decision to anchor operations in Malaysia's Johor is no coincidence," said Wan. Located near Singapore, Johor benefits from the Belt and Road Initiative, Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint and the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone, making it a Southeast Asian computing hub and EPG's front line for global outreach, Wan added.

From its origins in Shanghai to building production bases overseas, EPG has charted a representative overseas expansion path.

"In the early days, we followed Chinese clients overseas. Today, with our own manufacturing sites in Malaysia, we have transformed from an external supplier into a co-builder of the China-Malaysia industrial ecosystem," Wan said.

Guided by a long-term commitment to localization and compliance, EPG maintains full employment contract coverage, respects local multicultural traditions and runs school-enterprise programs to nurture local talent.

As of the end of 2025, local talent in Malaysia accounted for 84.8 percent of the company's middle and senior management team. Leveraging the dual-base layout, EPG quickly serves regional demand and neighboring markets in Southeast Asia and beyond.

At the heart of its global expansion is proprietary prefabricated modular data center technology. Data center functional modules are assembled and tested in factories before on-site installation. Compared with conventional construction, the solution ensures stable quality, shorter lead times and flexible scalable deployment, adaptable to different climates.

EPG takes Southeast Asia as its core market while exploring new growth frontiers. Beyond Malaysia, it targets Japan and South Korea, expands via its Dubai sales branch in the Middle East, and is ambitious to advance its entry into the European market, with sales branches in Finland and Spain in preparation.

Wan believes that AI will create a multipolar global computing landscape, and prefabrication offers an effective industrial path to realize universal computing access.

"We will continue to root ourselves in Malaysia and honor our commitment to localized manufacturing, talent development and operations. Taking Malaysia as our Southeast Asian manufacturing hub, we have the ambition to tap markets across Northeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe to build a worldwide prefabricated data center solution network," he said.

Moving forward, EPG will continue advancing prefabrication, cooling and AI-ready technologies, foster low-carbon digital infrastructure, deepen China-Malaysia industrial cooperation and work with global partners to make sustainable, accessible computing a reality worldwide.