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NEXTDC Bangkok (BKK1) data center

Bangkok (north/north-east fringe), Bangkok, Thailand · Bangkok metro market · location approximate to city level

NEXTDC Bangkok (BKK1) is a data center project in Bangkok (north/north-east fringe), Thailand, operated by NEXTDC. 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.

Latest change on record: entered the record as announced on 27 August 2026.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
NEXTDC
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Open question2 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

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. On record: named funder, committed or approved capital, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Greenfield build described as 'hyperscale' by BOI/press, by an operator whose 2024+ product line is explicitly AI/liquid-cooling-ready (Sharon AI 50MW lease Nov 2025; S7 Sydney with OpenAI Stargate as reported customer). No Thailand-specific cooling or density spec has been published.

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.

Stage history

2026-08-27Announced · announcements.asx.com.au

Who is behind it

OperatorNEXTDC · Colocation
Funder, EquityNEXTDC

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.

Money at this site

Approved by a government investment agency, 2024-07THB 13.76bn (about US$378m)

An approval figure is an incentive ceiling. It often covers a first phase and can exclude land or IT equipment.

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. nationthailand.com
  2. baxtel.com
  3. realassets.ipe.com
  4. NEXTDC Limited FY26 Annual Report (NEXTDC via ASX, 2026-08-27)
  5. BOI เผยยอดธุรกิจ Data Center ลงทุนในไทยเกือบแสนล้าน (Post Today, 2024-07-01)

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