Who’s pulling ahead in South-east Asia’s data centre race?
Malaysia has emerged as the frontrunner to challenge Singapore’s dominance, but Thailand is fast growing as a potential competitor
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THE start of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has led to a global race among countries to build more data centres and ramp up their capacity.
It’s no different in Singapore and the South-east Asia region, with billions of dollars committed to build data centres in the region this year. Singapore re-opened its doors to new investments in 2022, after imposing a moratorium on building data centres in 2019.
Despite the three-year moratorium, the city-state still enjoys a wide lead in terms of total capacity of 1.4 gigawatts (GW) – and it wants to build up another 300 megawatts of additional capacity. Overall, Singapore has over 70 data centres.
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