{"id":43783,"date":"2025-03-28T15:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=43783"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:10:43","slug":"empyrion-digital-receives-boi-approval-for-inaugural-investment-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2025\/03\/28\/empyrion-digital-receives-boi-approval-for-inaugural-investment-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Empyrion Digital receives BOI approval for inaugural investment in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Empyrion Digital, a next-generation digital infrastructure platform, has received approval from the&nbsp;Thailand&nbsp;Board of Investment (BOI) to develop its first data centre project (TH1) in&nbsp;Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BOI approval paves the way for the development of TH1, a minimum 12 MW (IT Load) facility expected to be ready for service by Q4 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covering 9,960 square meters across four storeys, TH1 is strategically located in Bang Na, a growing business hub and key gateway to&nbsp;Thailand&#8217;s&nbsp;Eastern Economic Corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designed to be AI-ready, the facility has secured in-principle power availability and will incorporate advanced cooling solutions to support critical AI workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green by design, TH1 will also be developed in line with sustainable best practices, with a focus on achieving low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) to minimise environmental impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once completed, TH1 will also benefit from extensive connectivity to all major fibre providers in&nbsp;Bangkok, with future submarine cables set to integrate into the metro network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to receive BOI approval, paving the way for Empyrion to develop the next-generation data centre supporting&nbsp;Thailand&#8217;s&nbsp;rapidly growing AI and cloud demand,&#8221; said&nbsp;Mark Fong, CEO, Empyrion Digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As Southeast Asia&#8217;s second-largest economy,&nbsp;Thailand&nbsp;presents significant opportunities for digital infrastructure growth. We are excited to commence our market entry and look forward to contributing to&nbsp;Thailand&#8217;s&nbsp;ongoing digital transformation and economic progress. As with all our projects, we remain committed to operational excellence and sustainability best practices in&nbsp;Thailand.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empyrion Digital, a next-generation digital infrastructure platform, has received approval from the&nbsp;Thailand&nbsp;Board of Investment (BOI) to develop its first data centre project (TH1) in&nbsp;Bangkok. The BOI approval paves the way for the development of TH1, a minimum 12 MW (IT Load) facility expected to be ready for service by Q4 2026. Covering 9,960 square meters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":43784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1463,14,59,44],"tags":[157,8194,8195,145],"class_list":["post-43783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apac","category-data-centres","category-south-east-asia","category-top-stories","tag-apac","tag-datacentres","tag-empyrion-digital","tag-thailand"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43785,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43783\/revisions\/43785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}