Vertiv has opened a manufacturing facility in Johor, Malaysia, expanding its regional footprint to serve growing demand for power, cooling, and integrated infrastructure across Southeast Asia, North Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
The site supports manufacturing, assembly, and testing for thermal and power infrastructure, including Vertiv CoolChip coolant distribution units for liquid-cooled high-density racks, the Power Module and Power Skid prefabricated power systems, and the SmartRun integrated overhead infrastructure system. Vertiv says its Power Module cuts deployment time for power systems by up to 50% over traditional builds; SmartRun targets on-site deployment times up to 85% faster.
The facility is expected to bring hundreds of skilled jobs to the region when fully operationalised in 2027. Until then, it will scale progressively — beginning with selected customer projects before broader commercial production.
Giordano Albertazzi, Vertiv's CEO, pointed to the pace of compute evolution as the core driver: "As compute requirements evolve across multiple generations of AI infrastructure, customers need partners to provide power, cooling, and infrastructure solutions at scale." The Johor location gives the company shorter supply lines for a region where AI infrastructure spending is rising fast, reducing deployment risk for enterprise, cloud, and colocation customers.
Vertiv's timing is straightforward: the AI infrastructure buildout in Asia has accelerated faster than existing supply chains were positioned for, and proximity to manufacturing matters when customers are racing to deploy capacity.
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