A consortium of seven banks has arranged an additional RM15 billion (US$3.7 billion) of financing for DayOne’s data centres in Johor, Malaysia, according to a joint statement from the lenders reported by The Business Times and The Edge on 13 October 2026. Reuters reported the deal the same day as a $3.7 billion financing for DayOne’s Malaysia expansion.
With the RM15 billion multi-currency financing DayOne secured in 2025, the lenders said, its Johor financing platform now stands at RM30 billion.
The additional amount consists of a US$2.4 billion offshore term loan facility and a RM5.5 billion Murabahah facility, The Business Times reported. The Edge described the Murabahah facility as Islamic financing and put the term loan at about RM9.8 billion.
The seven lenders are CIMB, Crédit Agricole CIB, DBS, Maybank, OCBC, Standard Chartered and UOB, acting as mandated lead arrangers, bookrunners and joint coordinators, according to both reports.
The Edge reported that the money will fund the expansion of DayOne’s data centre facilities in Johor.
DayOne’s Johor financing platform now stands at RM30 billion: RM15 billion secured in 2025 and an additional RM15 billion arranged by seven lenders, according to their joint statement as The Business Times and The Edge reported it on 13 October 2026.
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The key insight: As we read it, seven banks are lending against a platform whose filing shows about 69% of revenue from one customer: the facility size equals about three-quarters of the debt DayOne already reported, so the lenders’ comfort rests on the contracts behind the Johor capacity.
Who Is Lending
CIMB said it is the largest financier across DayOne’s combined RM30 billion financing arrangements, and Maybank is the largest provider of ringgit-denominated Islamic financing commitments to DayOne, The Edge reported. UOB described itself as DayOne’s primary relationship bank.
“The successful upsizing will support the platform’s next phase of hyperscale expansion, reflecting continued confidence in Johor’s emergence as a leading digital infrastructure hub,” said OCBC head of global corporate banking Elaine Lam, as quoted by The Edge.
DBS global head of telecommunications, media and technology Amit Sinha pointed to the Johor-Singapore corridor’s role in supporting AI infrastructure development, The Edge reported. Crédit Agricole CIB’s Jasmine Zhang said Malaysia’s data centre capacity is projected to reach between 4.2 GW and 6.1 GW by 2030, according to the same report.
What DayOne’s Filing Shows
DayOne filed for a US initial public offering on 5 October 2026. Its Form F-1 says that as of 30 June 2026 it had total outstanding debt, including borrowings and finance leases, of US$4.9 billion.
The same filing says DayOne’s largest customer, described as a global technology company with a leading short-form video platform, accounted for 69.4% of revenue in 2025 and 69.2% in the first half of 2026. The second largest customer accounted for 12.3% and 15.1%.
By our arithmetic, the new facility’s US$3.7 billion is equal to about three-quarters of the US$4.9 billion of debt DayOne reported at 30 June. That compares a facility’s size with debt outstanding; how much of the new facility will be drawn, and when, is not stated in what we read.
The seven mandated lead arrangers, bookrunners and joint coordinators named by The Business Times and The Edge on 13 October 2026; CIMB said it is the largest financier across the RM30 billion platform.
Bank Debt and the IPO Window
The financing lands while DayOne is preparing its listing. The Business Times reported that DayOne plans to raise as much as US$5 billion in its proposed Nasdaq IPO, at a potential valuation of US$20 billion, and The Edge, citing Reuters, reported preliminary talks with banks about a possible US$500 million bond offering.
The same day, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg headlines said AirTrunk is delaying its Singapore IPO, a story we covered in AirTrunk’s IPO delay. Our earlier read of DayOne’s IPO filing covered its customer concentration.
As we read it, the banks’ statement and the filing describe two funding routes for the same build-out: bank term and Murabahah facilities for the Johor platform, and public equity for the company as a whole.
The Structural Read
DayOne’s F-1 puts total outstanding debt at US$4.9 billion at 30 June 2026. By our arithmetic, the new US$3.7 billion facility is equal to about three-quarters of that figure, though how much will be drawn, and when, is not stated in what we read.
The same filing shows how concentrated the revenue is: 69.4% from the largest customer in 2025 and 69.2% in the first half of 2026. As we read it, that is the risk the banks are underwriting when they finance hyperscale capacity built for a few customers.
As we read it, the week shows both funding routes at once: bank term and Murabahah facilities for a campus platform, and a public listing for the company, while AirTrunk’s IPO is reported delayed.
Elaine Lam, OCBC, as quoted by The Edge
“The successful upsizing will support the platform’s next phase of hyperscale expansion, reflecting continued confidence in Johor’s emergence as a leading digital infrastructure hub.”
Three Implications
DAYONE The lenders said the additional RM15 billion takes DayOne’s Johor financing platform to RM30 billion, The Business Times and The Edge reported.
THE BANKS CIMB said it is the largest financier across the RM30 billion, and Maybank the largest provider of ringgit Islamic financing commitments, The Edge reported.
IPO INVESTORS DayOne’s F-1 shows US$4.9 billion of debt at 30 June 2026 and about 69% of revenue from its largest customer.
The framework sets its own question this way: “This piece is about the financing. How the money flows, where it cracks, what it buys, who can absorb it, and what happens when revenue can’t catch up.”
As we read it, DayOne’s RM30 billion Johor platform is one answer to “how the money flows”: regional banks lending against hyperscale capacity, with the customer concentration in the F-1 showing who ultimately has to keep paying.
What Is Not Established
We did not read the Reuters article itself, only its headline, and we read the lenders’ joint statement as The Business Times and The Edge quoted it, not the statement in full. Pricing, tenor, security and drawdown terms of the facility are not given in those reports.
DayOne is not quoted in the reports we read. Which customers the Johor capacity serves, and whether the new facility relates to the largest customer named in the filing, is not established here.
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Seven banks have arranged an additional RM15 billion (US$3.7 billion) for DayOne’s Johor data centres, according to the lenders’ joint statement as The Business Times and The Edge reported it. It is a US$2.4 billion term loan and a RM5.5 billion Murabahah facility, and it takes the Johor platform to RM30 billion. DayOne’s IPO filing shows US$4.9 billion of debt at 30 June and about 69% of revenue from one customer.
A note on sourcing. The financing terms, lenders and bank quotes are from the lenders’ joint statement as reported by The Business Times and The Edge on 13 October 2026; we read both articles in full that day but not the joint statement itself. Reuters reported the deal the same day; we read only its headline. Debt and customer figures are from DayOne’s Form F-1, filed with the SEC on 5 October 2026; the comparison of the facility with that debt is our own arithmetic. Nothing here is a forecast, and nothing here is financial or investment advice.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur, HackerNoon and Search Engine People. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
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