SINGAPORE, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Vantage Data Centers said

on Thursday it has secured a $1.6 billion investment led by an

affiliate of GIC and a unit of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to

scale up Asia-Pacific operations, including the purchase of a

data centre campus in Malaysia.

The U.S.-based company in a statement said the funding will

support its acquisition of Yondr Group's hyperscale campus in

Johor's Sedenak Tech Park in Malaysia.

It said the site, which will deliver more than 300 megawatts

of IT capacity, will bring Vantage Asia-Pacific's capacity to 1

gigawatt.

The investment underscores rising demand for digital

infrastructure in the region, driven by artificial intelligence

and cloud computing, it said.

Both GIC and ADIA are existing investors in Vantage Data

Centers, which is backed by digital infrastructure investment

firm DigitalBridge ( DBRG/PJ ).

Founded in 2010, Vantage Data Centers operates hyperscale -

or very large - data centre campuses across five continents, its

website showed.

The investment and the Johor campus acquisition are set to

close in the fourth quarter, Thursday's statement showed.