Telehouse to open purpose-built data centre in Bangkok

UK-HEADQUARTERED co-location provider Telehouse on Thursday (Jan 13) announced that it plans to open a new data centre in Bangkok, Thailand, together with its parent company, Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI.

The 9,000 square metre data centre is expected to open during Q2 of 2023. It will be known as Telehouse Bangkok, and will have a power capacity of 9.5 megavolt amperes.

Located in the Rama 9 business district, Telehouse Bangkok will be the first in the market to offer 4 routes for fibre access, said the company. It will also be the city's first purpose-built data centre focused on connectivity.

With the establishment of this new data centre, customers can expect more scalability and flexibility, Telehouse added.

The facility will provide redundant power supply with 2 substations, which the company highlighted as a "very rare" trait in the market. Back-up generators are in place in case of a power outage, on top of cooling and 24/7 security systems.

Thailand is the third location in South-east Asia to hold a Telehouse data centre after Singapore and Vietnam. It will join more than 45 of the company's other data centres worldwide.

"Telehouse Bangkok will be the first data centre of its kind in Bangkok and will come at a time when we expect the data centre market in the country to see robust growth owing to the boom in the digital economy," said Kenichi Miyashita, managing director of Telehouse Thailand.

He added that the new facility aims to provide "the best environment" for its Internet-related customers in Thailand by allowing them to connect with one another with minimal latency.