Thailand ramps up push into data centers

Companies such as Microsoft turning to Southeast Asian nation

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Thailand's drive into data centers comes as the nation looks to modernize its industrial sector. (Nikkei montage/Source photo by Ken Kobayashi)

APORRNRATH PHOONPHONGPHIPHAT, Nikkei staff writer

BANGKOK -- Thailand is revving up its drive to become a major hub for data centers, luring both local and foreign tech companies to set up new sites in the nation amid the global boom in artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

The country's Board of Investment in June approved two companies to develop large data centers in the kingdom worth a total of 10.4 billion baht ($280 million).

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