Thailand aims to become Southeast Asia’s data centre hub

[webfact]

 

The Thailand Data Centre Council (TDCC) is pushing to establish Thailand as the central hub for data centres in Southeast Asia in the next three years, amid rising competition with foreign data centre providers joining the market. From the United States, Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and India, global cloud data centre operators are turning their investment focus towards Thailand.

 

The Board of Investment (BoI) confirms that NextDC, an Australian data centre operator, obtained BoI approval for a 13.7 billion baht investment in a new hyperscale data centre in Bangkok. The Asian data centre leader, CtrlS Datacenters, has also leased a land plot in the Eastern Economic Corridor of Digital (EECd) in Chon Buri for 50 years. CtrlS Datacentres (Thailand) Co received BoI approval for a 5-billion-baht investment in this new hyperscale data centre.

 

Thai Internet and Cloud Service Provider Association President Morakot Kultumyothin mentioned plans to encourage greater participation from its members this year to enhance competitiveness and industry promotion. The association comprises 17 members, with the majority of them being Thai-owned service providers.

Despite the burgeoning competition, Wanchai Vach-shevadumrong, Deputy Managing Director of Internet Thailand (INET), identifies hidden opportunities. He predicts a continued demand for cloud services as businesses seek to cut costs, increase automation, and speed up digital transformation.

However, the company faces a pricing war due to the emergence of new foreign cloud service providers and the existing local ones. INET is targeting premium customers, offering a cloud service bundled with a cybersecurity service.

In related news, the TDCC recently appointed Thosaphol Pengsom as its first chairman. The five founding members of the TDCC jointly established the council in January 2024, aiming to uplift the data centre sector as a critical industry for Thailand’s digital infrastructure.

Thosaphol noted the importance of fostering an environment that supports the expansion of data centre capacity for major cloud service providers such as Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform.

 

According to TDCC, the APAC data centre co-location market supported 10,233 megawatts of IT capacity in 2023, roughly 40% of the global market. Projections by Structure Research forecast this capacity to surge to 19,069MW by 2028.

 

However, Thailand, despite having the region’s second-largest GDP, faces potential policy and regulatory challenges that may hinder its participation in the growing artificial intelligence (AI) economy, reported Bangkok Post.

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2024-02-27

 

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[SpaceKadet]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

APAC data centre co-location market supported 10,233 megawatts of IT capacity in 2023

There we go again, inventing metrics out of thin air. Since when do you measure IT capacity in MW?

Give you an example: 

I have a new rig, it has 1000W PSU. That would make it 1KW IT capacity, right? Next to it is an older build, with 850W PSU. 

The new rig is >400% more powerful than the old one processing and storage wise, yet only 15% more powerful according to this fony metrics.

 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

However, Thailand, despite having the region’s second-largest GDP, faces potential policy and regulatory challenges that may hinder its participation in the growing artificial intelligence (AI) economy

Ain't that the truth. They will never get there IMO, and the whole thing will become just another hot air global warmer.

Edited February 27 by SpaceKadet

[spidermike007]

Just more hot air from the do-nothing men who refuse to take action and just sit in an office all day collecting a salary and making this stuff up. Thailand can't even establish the ability to create solid state drives and therefore the world is moving away from Thailand as a manufacturer of hard drives. Yet they want to become a high-tech data center. I don't think so, dream on little men, that's all you seem to be able to do. 

 

All talk and no action makes Somchai and Sretta very dull boys. 

[candide]

What would be Thailand's competitive advantage?

[soi3eddie]

Hub of hubs of hubs... What would make Thailand more attractive or competitive for data centres? Certainly space might be cheaper but for a data centre connectivity would be a major factor. Hands down Singapore would be the better option for any of the cloud providers. 

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Despite the burgeoning competition, Wanchai Vach-shevadumrong, Deputy Managing Director of Internet Thailand (INET), identifies hidden opportunities. He predicts a continued demand for cloud services as businesses seek to cut costs, increase automation, and speed up digital transformation.

 

Lower costs, if realised, might be about the only real attractiveness. The market will usually resolve to fair value anyway. Good luck to INET in their obvious predictions.

 

[HappyExpat57]

Not much to report so lets refurb this old chestnut.

[thesetat]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

 

The Thailand Data Centre Council (TDCC) is pushing to establish Thailand as the central hub for data centres in Southeast Asia in the next three years, amid rising competition with foreign data centre providers joining the market. From the United States, Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and India, global cloud data centre operators are turning their investment focus towards Thailand.

 

The Board of Investment (BoI) confirms that NextDC, an Australian data centre operator, obtained BoI approval for a 13.7 billion baht investment in a new hyperscale data centre in Bangkok. The Asian data centre leader, CtrlS Datacenters, has also leased a land plot in the Eastern Economic Corridor of Digital (EECd) in Chon Buri for 50 years. CtrlS Datacentres (Thailand) Co received BoI approval for a 5-billion-baht investment in this new hyperscale data centre.

 

Thai Internet and Cloud Service Provider Association President Morakot Kultumyothin mentioned plans to encourage greater participation from its members this year to enhance competitiveness and industry promotion. The association comprises 17 members, with the majority of them being Thai-owned service providers.

Despite the burgeoning competition, Wanchai Vach-shevadumrong, Deputy Managing Director of Internet Thailand (INET), identifies hidden opportunities. He predicts a continued demand for cloud services as businesses seek to cut costs, increase automation, and speed up digital transformation.

However, the company faces a pricing war due to the emergence of new foreign cloud service providers and the existing local ones. INET is targeting premium customers, offering a cloud service bundled with a cybersecurity service.

In related news, the TDCC recently appointed Thosaphol Pengsom as its first chairman. The five founding members of the TDCC jointly established the council in January 2024, aiming to uplift the data centre sector as a critical industry for Thailand’s digital infrastructure.

Thosaphol noted the importance of fostering an environment that supports the expansion of data centre capacity for major cloud service providers such as Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform.

 

According to TDCC, the APAC data centre co-location market supported 10,233 megawatts of IT capacity in 2023, roughly 40% of the global market. Projections by Structure Research forecast this capacity to surge to 19,069MW by 2028.

 

However, Thailand, despite having the region’s second-largest GDP, faces potential policy and regulatory challenges that may hinder its participation in the growing artificial intelligence (AI) economy, reported Bangkok Post.

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2024-02-27

 

- Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here.

 

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I'm sorry if my reply steps on anyones toes. but this must be a joke article. Thailand where every month we read about bank employees, government employees and everyone in between selling date about the people here. How exactly does Thailand now think that other countries would even consider releasing their data to them knowing how easily that information can be bought and sold illegally? 

[quake]

14 hours ago, candide said:

What would be Thailand's competitive advantage?

 

They will sell your personal data, cheaper than anyone else.

Got to be a winner for Thailand. -4.0

[Mbolo]

There can’t be many more potential ‘hubs’ left. 

[quake]

4 minutes ago, Mbolo said:

There can’t be many more potential ‘hubs’ left. 

 

Maybe, the Hub of Truth, Honesty and Integrity.

But, maybe that's a Hub too far.

 

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

The Thailand Data Centre Council (TDCC) is pushing to establish Thailand as the central hub for data centres in Southeast Asia in the next three years, amid rising competition with foreign data centre providers joining the market.

Good luck with that.

[IAMHERE]

They do seem to have an awful lot of 'thin air'. Lots of stuff created out of it, so it would seem..

I wonder where the needed technicians are gonna come from? 

[DLock]

Wait...you're serious?

 

Which global companies would trust a datacenter in Thailand to secure their client information? 

 

Singapore would be the most obvious choice in SEA, given the infrastructure, laws, expertise and experience. Cost would be factor, but a little further down the list to security and laws to protect data.

[Pib]

22 hours ago, SpaceKadet said:

There we go again, inventing metrics out of thin air. Since when do you measure IT capacity in MW?

Give you an example: 

I have a new rig, it has 1000W PSU. That would make it 1KW IT capacity, right? Next to it is an older build, with 850W PSU. 

The new rig is >400% more powerful than the old one processing and storage wise, yet only 15% more powerful according to this fony metrics.

 

 

Did some googling...apparently a common method to rate data center IT capacity is  power consumption.

https://datacenterhawk.com/resources/hawkpodcast/how-to-measure-the-data-center-market-data-center-fundamentals

Measuring Data Center Market Supply

Let's map this to the data center industry.

On the supply side of the data center market, the lemonade stands are data centers. The family that runs one or more lemonade stands are data center providers or operators. Instead of selling lemonade, data center providers sell capacity. Instead of measuring in cups, the primary measure of capacity is electricity consumption, specifically kilowatts (kW) and megawatts (MW).

[NativeBob]

Once upon a time the air condition system suddenly went down in the server room with forest of racks.
Bang Rak, Bangkok, CAT IDC. And they couldn't bring it back to work for several days.
 

[SpaceKadet]

56 minutes ago, Pib said:

 

Did some googling...apparently a common method to rate data center IT capacity is  power consumption.

https://datacenterhawk.com/resources/hawkpodcast/how-to-measure-the-data-center-market-data-center-fundamentals

Measuring Data Center Market Supply

Let's map this to the data center industry.

On the supply side of the data center market, the lemonade stands are data centers. The family that runs one or more lemonade stands are data center providers or operators. Instead of selling lemonade, data center providers sell capacity. Instead of measuring in cups, the primary measure of capacity is electricity consumption, specifically kilowatts (kW) and megawatts (MW).

Yeah, so it's just like breweries.

[maxcorrigan]

Yes seems to be a land of countless hubs but wih no wheels, ie going nowhere!

[bendejo]

Read something recently about online scamming.  Chinese gangsters in LOS and Myanmar came up, some kind link to human trafficking and forced labor.  Do these count as data centers?

 

Edited February 29 by bendejo