Thailand approves $2.7 billion of investments in data centres and cloud services

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Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 11:44 PM 1 min read

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has approved 90.9 cardinal baht ($2.7 billion) worthy of investments successful information centres and unreality services, its concern committee said connected Monday, the latest additions to the country's expanding tech sector.

The projects see information centres from China’s Beijing Haoyang Cloud&Data Technology, Singapore-based Empyrion Digital, and Thai company, GSA Data Center 02, it said.

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Beijing Haoyang's program successful Thailand includes a 300 megawatt information centre, valued astatine 72.7 cardinal baht, portion the Thai steadfast has projected a 13.5 cardinal baht concern for a 35 MW information centre.

An AI roar has led to a unreserved to physique infrastructure successful Southeast Asia, including information centres that location machine servers and instrumentality that companies usage to process and store data.

In January, Bytedance's TikTok announced plans successful Thailand, Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy, to acceptable up a information hosting services valued astatine 126.8 cardinal baht, according to the concern board.

Last year, Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOG) said it would put $1 cardinal successful Thailand, which followed Amazon Web Services (AMZN) announcing a $5 cardinal concern successful the state implicit 15 years.

Microsoft has besides announced it volition unfastened its archetypal determination information centre successful Thailand.

(Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng; Editing by John Mair, Martin Petty)

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