{"id":358925,"date":"2025-08-20T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358925\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T08:07:11","slug":"thai-data-centre-capacity-may-triple-on-surging-demand-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358925\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai data centre capacity may triple on surging demand for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"lifestyle data centre\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"512\" height=\"320\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"html-img h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4a50fc79-lifestyle-data-centre-emel-pic-310125.webp.jpeg\"\/>The Thai Data Center Association said the nation\u2019s data centre capacity is expected to rise to about 1GW in 2027 from 350MW in 2024. (ETX Majelan pic)<br \/>\nBANGKOK: Thailand\u2019s data centre capacity is expected to triple in the next three years as investments of about US$6.5 billion pour into the sector to meet surging demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The nation\u2019s capacity is expected to rise to about 1GW in 2027 from 350MW in 2024, said Supparat Singhara Na Ayutthaya, vice chairman of the Thai Data Center Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cA data centre requires an investment of about US$10 million for each megawatt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cThailand has drawn tremendous interest for new data centre investments with its steady power generation and water supply,\u201d Supparat said in an interview this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google, Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp and Nvidia Corp are among global tech giants spending billions of dollars on AI infrastructure in Thailand and across Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cThere will be many more global technology companies further diversifying their data centre facilities to Thailand,\u201d Supparat said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The expansion of Thailand\u2019s data centre sector comes as the nation, a longtime manufacturing powerhouse for automobiles and electronics, accelerates efforts to boost its high-tech industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The government wants Thailand to catch up to countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, regional leaders in data centre and cloud computing services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">In the first half of the year, Thailand\u2019s Board of Investments approved investment applications worth \u0e3f322 billion (US$9.9 billion) for 36 tech projects, most of which were data centres, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cThe data centre association is awaiting clarity about the US plan to restrict shipments of AI chips and what effect that could have on the nation\u2019s data centres,\u201d Supparat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Thai Data Center Association said the nation\u2019s data centre capacity is expected to rise to about 1GW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[323,1942,21305,126278,30288,14270,3284,96840,38911,5167,126279,126280,28767,126281,326,53,126282,731,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-358925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-automobiles","11":"tag-board-of-investments","12":"tag-chips","13":"tag-cloud-computing","14":"tag-computing","15":"tag-data-centre","16":"tag-electronics","17":"tag-manufacturing","18":"tag-manufacturing-powerhouse-for-automobiles","19":"tag-powerhouse","20":"tag-projects","21":"tag-shipments","22":"tag-tech","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-thai-data-center-association","25":"tag-thailand","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115060070413650929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}