Bangkok’s Quiet Tech Boom: 2.5 GW of Capacity and Counting
Once a side-player in Asia’s digital race, Thailand’s capital now hosts the region’s second-largest server hub after Johor—powered by US$15 bn of fresh hyperscale cash and an AI load that jumped from 20 % to 28 % in 12 months.
From retail racks to mega-campuses
Between 2019 and 2024 Bangkok’s IT load exploded twenty-fold; the 40 % compound annual growth rate is still ticking. Land-rich provinces Chonburi and Rayong—anchor tenants of the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)—have morphed from sleepy fishing towns to 200-acre cloud campuses where power allocations for 2026 are already oversubscribed.
Who’s writing the cheques
- AWS: US$5 bn, three availability zones under construction
- Google: US$1 bn hyperscale site in Chonburi
- Microsoft: first Thai cloud region live in 2025
- ByteDance: US$8.8 bn regional AI training hub
- Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent: parallel 100 MW+ builds
AI is the new tenant
Cloud still takes 38 % of live megawatts, but AI workloads—LLM training, inference clusters and NVIDIA DGX pods—now chew 28 %, up eight points year-on-year. Local start-up Siam AI Corp has paired with NVIDIA to deploy DGX SuperPODs inside STT GDC and Bridge Data Centres, giving Thailand on-shore GPU horsepower that used to live only in Tokyo or Singapore.
Power, ports and politics
EEC offers 30-year land leases at industrial tariffs, dual 230 kV grid feeds and sub-10 ms fibre to submarine cables landing in Sri Racha. Add a one-stop government approval window and you can break ground in 180 days—half the time needed in Jakarta or Manila.
Pipeline snapshot
- DayOne Chonburi Tech Park: 120 MW under construction
- Bridge Data Centres: 200 MW green-field, phase 1 Q3-2026
- DAMAC Digital: 150 MW, Rayong campus pending EPA permit
Bottom line
Bangkok may never dethrone Shanghai in absolute gigawatts, but for hyperscalers hunting cheap land, stable policy and a 70-million-consumer ASEAN beach-head, the Thai capital has become the obvious next pin on the map. Secure your power now or queue behind the next TikTok algorithm.
