Malaysian pre-fab data center firm BrightRay is set to develop a data center in Macau.

The company last week announced that it has entered into a prefabricated module sales framework agreement with an unnamed customer based in Macau for a data center project there.

The customer is the developer of a planned AI data center project in Coloane, Macau, and will use BrightRay’s FPD fully prefabricated data center solution.

Located at Rua das Albizias Nos 71-93, Rua Marginal da Concordia, the five-story facility could offer up to 40MW of IT capacity across 9,000 sqm (96,875 sq ft). Delivery is expected in the third quarter of 2027.

The Tier III-quality facility could offer air-cooled, fully liquid-cooled, and hybrid air-liquid IT deployments, supporting 10kW to 500kW per rack.

“Macau’s limited space places higher demands on land-use efficiency and on the organization of on-site construction,” said Bin Wang, founder of BrightRay. “We believe that additional AI computing infrastructure will contribute to the development of Macau’s digital economy, and we look forward to working with the customer to advance the project.

"The framework agreement marks an important step in the expansion of BrightRay’s prefabricated data center business. BrightRay’s project delivered in Johor, Malaysia, already has 70MW in operation, with a further 50MW planned.”

The agreement doesn’t include an obligation to purchase or supply modules, and will require a definitive sales contract, which will be signed after BrightRay subsidiary BrightRay Veridian has secured a tenant for the project and the customer has signed a legally binding lease with that tenant.

The current agreement runs until the end of September 2027, after which it will terminate automatically.

BrightRay (aka BrightRay Science Inc.) has previously developed a data center in Johor, Malaysia.

Macau (or Macao) is a special administrative region of China. Formerly a Portuguese colony, it was returned to China in 1999 under a similar "one country, two systems" agreement as Hong Kong.

CTM is the only data center in the colony, according to Data Center Map. GDS has previously outlined plans for a 20MW facility there, but it's unclear if the project went live.

Huawei has previously provided Macau’s Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) with a data center, according to an online case study.

Telecoms firms China Telecom and 3 Macau also operate in Macau.

BUUU to acquire majority stake in BrightRay

Last month, BrightRay announced that Nasdaq-listed BUUU Group Limited had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 60 percent equity interest in the data center company. Under the deal, BrightRay will become a consolidated subsidiary of BUUU upon completion of the transaction.

BUUU also signed private placement agreements which, together with potential proceeds from the cash exercise of outstanding warrants, are expected to generate aggregate gross proceeds of more than $60 million. The proceeds are intended to support BrightRay’s capacity expansion and working capital requirements.

BrightRay founder Wang said: “We made the data center one of the fastest parts of AI instead of the slowest. With BUUU, we gain the capital base and international standing to take this model global.”

Established in 2017, BUUU is a meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions solutions provider based in Hong Kong. BUUU will hold a call option to acquire the remaining 40 percent interest in BrightRay during a three-year period following closing.

Under the agreement, BUUU expects to pay the acquisition consideration in two components: newly issued BUUU Class A ordinary shares and a promissory note convertible into up to ten million BUUU shares. The final consideration will be limited to 19.99 percent of BUUU's total outstanding shares.

BUUU management said: “In the AI era, the bottleneck is not the chips but the buildings, power, and cooling they cannot run without. BrightRay turned that bottleneck into a manufacturable product and proved it at hyperscale. We are acquiring the rate-limiting step of the AI economy.”

BrightRay said it was previously supported by “Tencent-affiliated investors.”