Google said on Tuesday its investments in Malaysia would create 26,500 jobs and contribute more than $3 billion to its economy by 2030, as it announced its new data centre and Cloud region there had broken ground. The start of construction of the new $2 billion data centre in Malaysia follows Monday's announcement of its multi-year partnership with local tech firm Dagang NeXchange Berhad to provide sovereign cloud services. It also follows Monday's announcement that it would invest $1 billion in Thailand to build a data centre and cloud region there, to meet growing cloud demand and support Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption in Southeast Asia.