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Equinix BK1 (Bangna) data center

Bang Na / Bang Phli, Bangkok, Thailand · Bangkok metro market · location approximate to district level

Equinix BK1 (Bangna) is a data center project in Bang Na / Bang Phli, Thailand, operated by Equinix. It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
Equinix
Colocation
AI workloads
Unlikely
Evidence grade
Sourced
Will it get built?Long shot1 of 7 gates passed
○ Land secured○ Power arranged○ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Land secured.

Your call. Will it be built?

Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.

How Thailand approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Thailand.

Thailand, 2026-09-24. Thailand asked developers on 4 September 2026 to pause 49 data centres under construction and froze 117 pending approvals while it writes new rules, due by mid October. The government has said it cannot legally enforce the pause. No list of affected projects has been published, so no Thai project has changed stage on this basis. A separate data centre electricity tariff has been created with no rate set.

How well evidenced is it

One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. On record: named funder, three or more sources. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusUnlikely

Equinix IBX product is an interconnection/enterprise play; capacity described in cabinets (3,375 at full build across two IBXs), not MW.

Access to AI chips

GradeNo US licence required

This country carries no US destination-based licence requirement for advanced AI chips as the rules are enforced today. Access is a commercial matter between the project and its vendors. Criteria.

Who is behind it

OperatorEquinix · Colocation
Funder, EquityEquinix

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-01. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Platform deals that include it

Equinix Thailand investment programme
Country programme, 2024-10
US$500m

Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.

Build, land, power and water
Nothing found in public sources yet. Most contractors and utilities never name their data centre clients. Know who built it or where its power comes from? Tell us.

Sources

  1. datacenterdynamics.com
  2. mingtiandi.com
  3. datacentermap.com

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