GEORGE TOWN, April 29 -- Malaysia has recorded total investments of RM16.2 billion from digital companies between January and mid-April this year.

Digital minister Gobind Singh Deo today said the investments are expected to create some 6,500 jobs over the next five years.

He said Malaysia has a total 3,891 active Malaysia Digital (MD) companies with 254 in the northern region.

"Data centres and cloud investments lead the way contributing RM9.9 billion or more than 60 per cent of the total," he said in his speech at the Malaysia Digital Open Day at UAB Building here.

He said artificial intelligence (AI) companies also make up the largest share of new MD-status companies at 27 per cent, followed by data centres (23 per cent) and global ...