Thailand welcomes Google's US$1 billion investment in data center

[BigStar]

18 hours ago, Maestro said:

Removed a post with false information. Suvarnabhumi airport is not "sitting there abandoned and sunk in the swamp"

@BigStar 

 

Obviously false information for the obvious purpose of satire, quoting the prophecies made by ANF posters when the construction of Suvarnabhumi was announced.

[johnnybangkok]

Google gives Thailand a big thumbs up with a major investment that will create 14,000 jobs annually until 2029 and by the look of so many posters here you would have thought they'd just declared war.

 

This is EXACTLY the kind of good news Thailand needs right now to turn around it's image as the 'sick man of ASEAN' and finally bring in some much needed investment. 

 

https://world.thaipbs.or.th/detail/has-thailand-become-the-sick-man-of-asean-thailands-prolonged-political-crisis/228

[phetphet]

Will it be a 51% - 49% split in favour of Thailand?

How do these things work at such a large scale with multinational corporations?

 

[DLock]

32 minutes ago, phetphet said:

Will it be a 51% - 49% split in favour of Thailand?

How do these things work at such a large scale with multinational corporations?

 

No. It will all be negotiated and likely BOI, with lots of work permit, tax and favorable terms for Google.

 

This is a terrific initiative, as was Microsofts, and the supporting industries it will foster.

 

The naysayers are just not very bright.

[FritsSikkink]

7 hours ago, WHansen said:

I worked on Apples new data center in Denmark last year, they had problems with water ingress from the 375 meter felted valleys between the massive roof sections, i suspect with Thailands torrential downpours similar problems will occur.

 

The cooling systems for these data centers is also on a scale hard to comprehend, they generate so much heat that the hot water was going to be piped to the nearest town. With the ambient temps being so high in Thailand, that may also cause some issues.

 

The power requirements to run a data center are also astonishing.

 

From the diggers moving in to completion, i would guess 5 plus years if on the scale of Apples center.

There are datacenters in Thailand and they work fine.

[FritsSikkink]

1 hour ago, john donson said:

why did AI solve for all the billions it costs ?  they consume a massive amount of electricity and for what ?  more capture of your private data to be sold....

Nonsense.

[FritsSikkink]

44 minutes ago, phetphet said:

Will it be a 51% - 49% split in favour of Thailand?

How do these things work at such a large scale with multinational corporations?

 

No, BOI company which allows 100% owned by Google.

[KannikaP]

20 hours ago, RayWright said:

I'm sorry, but it doesn't take 14,000 people to a DC this size.

Build or Man?

[impulse]

1 hour ago, johnnybangkok said:

This is EXACTLY the kind of good news Thailand needs right now to turn around it's image as the 'sick man of ASEAN' and finally bring in some much needed investment. 

 

Yeah.  It all looks great, until the AI displaces 10x as many workers with robots.

 

Edit:  Then they cook the books to shift all the profit to Ireland, to avoid paying local taxes.

 

[RayWright]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

Build or Man?

Both. 

[fondue zoo]

21 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Don't know where you live or how your setup is but I don't have that problem in Bangkok

 

Yeah, I thought they had an excess generation capacity of up to 30%, the issues are the 'weak' points in the distribution grid and occasional fu tropical weather.

[johnnybangkok]

2 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Yeah.  It all looks great, until the AI displaces 10x as many workers with robots.

 

Edit:  Then they cook the books to shift all the profit to Ireland, to avoid paying local taxes.

 

Another 'expert' who feels compelled to comment when they don't have the slighest idea about what they are talking about.

[NativeBob]

Yeah, sure-sure. Thai data centers with sudden collapse of climate control systems that once "fried" few dozen racks of servers and Pantip Plaza wannabee sysadmins. Still laughing 

[impulse]

24 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

Another 'expert' who feels compelled to comment when they don't have the slighest idea about what they are talking about.

 

Yeah.  It looks like the even hose Ireland, shifting their profits to Bermuda.

 

https://www.itpro.com/business/361667/google-settles-tax-payment-in-ireland

[gk10012001]

19 hours ago, WHansen said:

I worked on Apples new data center in Denmark last year, they had problems with water ingress from the 375 meter felted valleys between the massive roof sections, i suspect with Thailands torrential downpours similar problems will occur.

 

The cooling systems for these data centers is also on a scale hard to comprehend, they generate so much heat that the hot water was going to be piped to the nearest town. With the ambient temps being so high in Thailand, that may also cause some issues.

 

The power requirements to run a data center are also astonishing.

 

From the diggers moving in to completion, i would guess 5 plus years if on the scale of Apples center.

Wow.  Thank you for that very informative post.  For that much power usage, one might think they were crypto mining

[BigStar]

On 10/1/2024 at 11:49 AM, lordgrinz said:

 

Well they could do like Microsoft did and buy a Nuclear Power plant to run their systems 😉

 

https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-boom-is-raising-hopes-of-a-nuclear-comeback/

 

Incredible how they thought of that.

 

Google CEO Eyes Atomic Power for AI Data Centers as Big Tech Seeks Nuclear Revival to Achieve Net Zero

 

[bkknirvana]

Google constructing the digital prison for humanity