ASEAN counts 303 data centres
- Research and Markets on April 27 released a Southeast Asia data-center database counting 303 operating colocation sites and 162 more in development. - The nine-country tally spans Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia through Laos and Myanmar, with 149 operators and 465 facilities tracked by floor space. - Asia’s next buildout is shifting toward gigawatt-scale, power-hungry artificial-intelligence campuses, tightening the focus on energy and local hosting. (telecomreviewasia.com)
Research and Markets on April 27 published a Southeast Asia data-center database that counts 303 operating colocation facilities and 162 more in the pipeline. (researchandmarkets.com) (finance.yahoo.com) The dataset covers nine countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It tracks 149 operators across 465 existing and upcoming facilities. (researchandmarkets.com) (arizton.com) The report measures each site by white-floor area, information-technology load in megawatts, and rack capacity. Those are the basic yardsticks for how much computing equipment a building can actually host. (researchandmarkets.com) Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia remain the region’s best-known hubs, but the database also points to expansion into Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. The wider footprint matters because cloud companies and artificial-intelligence developers increasingly want capacity closer to users and regulators. (arizton.com) (assets.kpmg.com) The power question is getting bigger than the buildings themselves. Telecom Review Asia reported Monday that developers in India, China, Japan and South Korea are now planning gigawatt-class artificial-intelligence data centers, far larger than the tens- or hundreds-of-megawatt projects that defined the last cycle. (telecomreviewasia.com) A gigawatt is the scale of a major power plant, and artificial-intelligence servers draw far more electricity than conventional cloud racks because they pack in graphics processors and cooling gear. That is pushing operators toward integrated power strategies, not just land banking and shell construction. (telecomreviewasia.com) (assets.kpmg.com) One sign of that shift came from Thailand on April 27, when U Power said it would form a joint venture with Guofu Hydrogen Energy and Cloud Digital Chain to supply artificial-intelligence-driven energy management for intelligent data centers. U Power said the venture would start in Thailand before expanding to other markets. (morningstar.com) (markets.ft.com) That leaves Southeast Asia with two races running at once: one to add more server space, and another to secure enough electricity, cooling and local compliance to keep that space usable. The facility count is rising fast, but the harder constraint is increasingly power. (researchandmarkets.com) (telecomreviewasia.com)
