Thailand is offering another strong reminder of its intentions in the data centre market with the recently reported approval of US$3.1 billion in new investments by the country’s Board of Investment (BOI) for four new data centre projects.

According to the Telecom Review Asia news website, the BOI confirmed that two of the approved projects are hyperscale facilities built to support AI workloads. 

NextGen Data Center and Cloud Services, a subsidiary of Dubai-based DAMAC Digital, will build an 84-MW hyperscale data centre in Pathum, north of Bangkok, while local firm Zenith Data Center and Cloud Services plans to develop a 200-MW hyperscale facility in the same area.

Meanwhile, KDDI Corporation-owned Telehouse (Thailand) will construct a 12-MW data centre next to its existing Bangkok site and Vistas Technology, a subsidiary of China-based ZDATA Technologies, plans to build an 80-MW facility in the Amata City Chonburi Industrial Estate in eastern Thailand. This is its second BOI-approved project.

The BOI also issued six licenses to restart stalled data centre projects worth US$9.2 billion. The agency aims to clear delays tied to power availability, industrial land access, and visa or work permit processing.

This is explained as being part of Thailand’s strategy to attract hyperscale operators and expand world-class digital infrastructure. The country aims to compete more aggressively with Singapore and Malaysia as cloud and AI demand rises across the region and hopes to become a leading digital infrastructure hub in Southeast Asia.

There’s certainly been no shortage of big-name data centre investors since 2024 – including AWS, Google, Microsoft, and ByteDance.

There's also been a lot of investment. Indeed, in March we reported approval for an estimated US$2.7 billion of investments in data centres and cloud services from both local and foreign firms.byte