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Thailand sets new rules for data centres as applications surge

By Reuters News

BANGKOK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Thailand's data centre committee said on Tuesday that it would establish a set of minimum requirements for data centre operators, including standards for location and land use, fuel storage and water management infrastructure as well as an environmental code of practice.

  • Data centres will be divided into seven tiers based on power demand, the committee said

  • New data centre applications are expected to open in early 2027, after the criteria are submitted to cabinet next week, said Danucha Pichayanan, secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council

  • Existing data centres will have one year to meet the new minimum requirements, Danucha said

  • Danucha said that there were more than 100 prospective operators

  • Thailand has seen a wave of data centre investments in recent years, prompting the government to scrutinise their impact.

  • As of February, it had 42 data centres, representing 3,400 MW of IT load and about 750 billion baht ($22.58 billion) in investment

  • Southeast Asia's second-largest economy wants to position itself as a regional data infrastructure hub, similar to Singapore and Malaysia

  • Some of the largest data centre projects have been from TikTok, which invested $24.61 billion this year

  • In 2024, Google GOOGL.O announced a $1 billion investment in data centre and cloud architecture

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