Thailand has approved investments totaling approximately 2.7 billion USD in data centers and cloud services, marking a significant expansion of the country’s tech sector. The projects include data centers from Beijing Haoyang Cloud&Data Technology, Empyrion Digital from Singapore, and the Thai company GSA Data Center 02. Among these, Beijing Haoyang plans to develop a 300-megawatt data center valued at about 2.1 billion USD, while GSA Data Center 02 has proposed a 400 million USD investment for a 35-megawatt facility.
The increasing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) has driven the need for more data infrastructure in Southeast Asia, with data centers playing a crucial role in supporting the storage and processing of large amounts of data. Earlier this year, TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, announced plans to establish a data hosting service in Thailand, valued at approximately 3.6 billion USD. This followed significant investments from global tech giants, with Alphabet Inc. (Google) announcing a 1 billion USD investment in Thailand and Amazon Web Services committing 5 billion USD over 15 years.
In addition to these initiatives, Microsoft has revealed plans to open its first regional data center in Thailand. The surge in these investments reflects the growing importance of Southeast Asia, and Thailand in particular, as a hub for digital infrastructure and technology services in the region.
(Source: Reuters)
