The roots of Kuok Group, the conglomerate founded by legendary business tycoon Robert Kuok, go back to 1949 in Malaysia’s Johor state, where he and his brothers started a business trading everyday items such as sugar, rice and flour. More than 75 years later, once-sleepy Johor, cashing in on its plentiful land and proximity to Singapore, has transformed itself into a booming tech hub. There, in a homecoming of sorts, the Kuok Group has latched on to the opportunity of selling a 21st century essential: data storage.
Last October, the group’s privately held unit K2 Strategic, led by the patriarch’s 41-year-old grandson Kuok Meng Wei, opened a 60 megawatt (MW) data center—capacity is measured by power consumption—at the 700-acre Sedenak Tech Park, one of a dozen digital hubs multiplying across Johor. Located about 30 kilometers from the century-old causeway connect-ing Singapore and state capital Johor Bahru, it has drawn some of the biggest data center players from around the world.
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