{"id":1033343,"date":"2026-09-05T08:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033343"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:10:49","slug":"thailand-moves-to-tighten-data-centre-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/05\/thailand-moves-to-tighten-data-centre-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand moves to tighten data centre rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok: Thailand said Friday it would introduce clearer rules on AI data centres to regulate the fast-growing sector, and urged almost 50 sites currently under construction to hold the projects until then. <\/p>\n<p>As demand for artificial intelligence heats up, tech giants are racing to invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia, attracted by a growing plugged-in user base. <\/p>\n<p>But the rapid expansion has outpaced regulation and concerns are growing across the world about the centres&#8217; impact on the environment, including their use of electricity and water, and local communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok: Thailand said Friday it would introduce clearer rules on AI data centres to regulate the fast-growing sector, and urged almost 50 sites currently under construction to hold the projects until then. As demand for artificial intelligence heats up, tech giants are racing to invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia, attracted by a growing plugged-in user base. But the rapid expansion has outpaced regulation and concerns are growing across the world about the centres&#8217; impact on the environment, including their use of electricity and water, and local communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033364,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033343\/revisions\/1033364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}