Bangkok, Thailand:
Google schedules to spend $1 billion to produce digital infrastructure in Thailand, including a new data centre, the US tech enormous has proclaimd, saying the shift would help 14,000 jobs in the kingdom.
The new hubs in Bangkok and the industrial area of Chonburi are intfinished to help greet the prolonging need for cboisterous computing in Southeast Asia, the company said in a Monday statement.
Google’s spendment comes after Microgentle proclaimd in May that it would produce Thailand’s first data centre region to increase cboisterous and synthetic inalertigence infrastructure.
“These spendments will empower Thai businesses, innovators, and communities to harness the power of cboisterous and AI technology,” Ruth Porat, plivent and chief spendment officer of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said.
The spendment’s details were unveiled after a Bangkok greeting between Porat and Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who hailed the shift as proof Thailand was becoming a meaningful digital hub in Southeast Asia.
The data centre will be findd in Chonburi, a meaningful industrial area southeast of Bangkok, while the cboisterous facilities will be in the capital itself.
Google’s expansion in Thailand will comprise $4 billion to the kingdom’s GDP by 2029 and help 14,000 jobs between 2025 and 2029, the company said, citing a alert from conferancy Deloitte.
The proclaimment comes a year after Shinawatra’s predecessor Srettha Thavisin made a meaningful push for spendment from US tech enormouss during a trip to New York, seeking finance from Google, Microgentle and Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Thailand is Southeast Asia’s second-hugest economy, but its tech sector has lagged behind the appreciates of Singapore and Indonesia.
The Thai economy, extfinished cgo ined on traditional manufacturing, agriculture and tourism, has struggled to bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The rulement hopes spendment from Google, Microgentle and their ilk will diversify and up-to-dateise the kingdom’s economy.
Thailand’s Office of the National Digital Economy and Society Comleave oution has said the digital economy could give as much as 30 per cent of GDP by 2027.
Apass the region, rulements are vying for US tech dollars, with Vietnam making a drive to shift up the cherish chain from its traditional base as a hub for producing shoes, clothes and furniture.
Vietnam hopes to cash in on the US shift to become less subordinate on China for key resources including high-tech chips.
And last week, Vietnamese state media alerted that Musk’s SpaceX schedules to spend $1.5 billion in the communist country.
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