Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

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    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/09/07/thailand-pauses-all-datacenter-builds-and-approvals/5294688",
    "title": "Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals",
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    "excerpt": "off-prem PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; And more! ASIA IN BRIEF Thailand’s National Economic and Social Development Council last week decided to pause all datacenter builds in the country, while it works out appropriate regulations. The Council announced the pause last Friday in a communiqué issued after a meeting of its Datacenter Business Policy Committee, at which Thailand’s Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said datacenters are an important part of the nation’s economy – but admitted his government doesn’t have good data about how many of the facilities currently operate, or the pipeline for new builds. That’s quite an admission as community disquiet with datacenter development has become an issue in Thailand. The Council’s development approval pause gives operators and investors a week to submit info about their operations, to help the government expedite development of a unified regulatory framework for datacenters. Bangkok also wants to develop a plan to determine how many datacenters Thailand needs, and the format of those facilities. The Council’s starting point is to consider all datacenters using more than 2 MW of electricity as industrial businesses, consider the introduction of “resource utilization fees” so that indirect costs that flow from...",
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