Listen to this articleAt its first board meeting this year on Jan 15, the BoI approved seven significant data centre and data hosting projects, representing investment of more than $3.1 billion. Thailand's ambition to become Southeast Asia's data centre hub should not be directly affected by India's plan to offer a 20-year tax holiday to foreign firms using local data centres, as India is not a major rival to Thailand in attracting data centre investment, say local executives. "Implementing government policies to promote cloud-first and AI-native initiatives would ensure continuous demand and sustainable growth of the data centre sector," said the source. At its first board meeting this year on Jan 15, the BoI approved seven significant data centre and data hosting projects, with investment of more than US$3.1 billion. In 2025, the BoI received applications for 36 data centre projects with a combined investment of $23.1 billion.

Source: Bangkok Post February 03, 2026 22:45 UTC