{"id":995105,"date":"2026-02-27T07:27:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995105"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:06:26","slug":"where-ai-lives-southeast-asias-data-centre-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/where-ai-lives-southeast-asias-data-centre-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Where AI lives: Southeast Asia&#8217;s data centre boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nonstop buzzing fills a windowless Microsoft data centre near Jakarta, part of a tech construction boom sweeping Southeast Asia that promises economic opportunities but is also hungry for resources. <\/p>\n<p>As demand for artificial intelligence heats up, technology giants are racing to invest billions of dollars in the region, attracted by a growing plugged-in user base. <\/p>\n<p>New data centres; warehouse-like facilities that store online files and power AI tools from chatbots to image generators are mushrooming worldwide, and the sector is growing particularly fast in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonstop buzzing fills a windowless Microsoft data centre near Jakarta, part of a tech construction boom sweeping Southeast Asia that promises economic opportunities but is also hungry for resources. As demand for artificial intelligence heats up, technology giants are racing to invest billions of dollars in the region, attracted by a growing plugged-in user base. New data centres; warehouse-like facilities that store online files and power AI tools from chatbots to image generators are mushrooming worldwide, and the sector is growing particularly fast in Asia.<\/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-995105","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\/995105","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=995105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}