AI boom's surprise winners: Malaysia's Selangor and Johor royal houses, thanks to data center foresight
basedjensen · x · 2026-11-05
An X post argues the biggest winners of the AI boom may end up being Malaysia's Selangor and Johor royal houses, crediting Johor's crown prince TMJ for his foresight on Johor's data center buildout.
Johor has become a major Southeast Asia data center hub attracting massive foreign AI infrastructure investment — a reminder that land and political relationships quietly shape the compute map.
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