Thailand has reinforced its ambitions in the data center sector with the recent authorization of USD 3.1 billion worth of new investments for four data center projects, the country’s Board of Investment (BOI) confirmed, according to Telecom Review Asia.
Two of the new initiatives will be hyperscale data centers tailored to accommodate artificial intelligence applications. Notably, NextGen Data Center and Cloud Services — a unit of Dubai-headquartered DAMAC Digital — is set to establish an 84-megawatt hyperscale data center in Pathum Thani, just north of Bangkok. Meanwhile, Zenith Data Center and Cloud Services, a local enterprise, intends to build a 200-megawatt hyperscale facility within the same province.
In addition to these projects, KDDI Corporation subsidiary Telehouse (Thailand) will develop a 12-megawatt data center adjacent to its current Bangkok operation. Vistas Technology, owned by China’s ZDATA Technologies, is also planning an 80-megawatt data center in the Amata City Chonburi Industrial Estate, marking its second BOI-approved investment in Thailand.
To address operational hurdles, the BOI has granted six further licenses enabling the restart of stalled data center projects worth a collective USD 9.2 billion. These efforts target challenges such as securing sufficient power, industrial land acquisition, and streamlining the approval process for visas and work permits.
Since 2024, global cloud and technology players including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and ByteDance have all pledged significant investments in Thailand’s data infrastructure landscape.
