BENGALURU – Alphabet’s Google plans to invest US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) to build data centres in Thailand, joining global tech companies in adding cloud and AI infrastructure in South-east Asia.
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BENGALURU – Alphabet’s Google plans to invest US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) to build data centres in Thailand, joining global tech companies in adding cloud and AI infrastructure in South-east Asia.
The company will add facilities in Bangkok and Chonburi, a province southeast of the capital. The outlay could help add US$4 billion to Thailand’s economy by 2029 and support 14,000 jobs annually over the next five years, Google said on Sept 30, citing a Deloitte study.
The investment was unveiled by Google and Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand’s recently appointed prime minister, underscoring the push by South-east Asia’s governments to attract foreign tech firms. Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon.com are spending billions of dollars to ramp up AI data centres from Thailand and Malaysia to Singapore and Indonesia.
“We are investing in cloud regions, data centres and subsea…