Thailand approves $2.7 billion of investments in data centres, cloud services
The projects include data centres from China's Beijing Haoyang Cloud&Data Technology, Singapore-based Empyrion Digital, and Thai company, GSA Data Center 02, it said.
Beijing Haoyang's plan in Thailand includes a 300 megawatt data centre, valued at 72.7 billion baht, while the Thai firm has proposed a 13.5 billion baht investment for a 35 MW data centre.
An AI boom has led to a rush to build infrastructure in Southeast Asia, including data centres that house computer servers and equipment that companies use to process and store data.
In January, Bytedance's TikTok announced plans in Thailand, Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy, to set up a data hosting services valued at 126.8 billion baht, according to the investment board.
Last year, Alphabet Inc's Google said it would invest $1 billion in Thailand, which followed Amazon Web Services announcing a $5 billion investment in the country over 15 years.
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