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Bridge Data Centres Chonburi Hyperscale Campus

Khlong Tamru, Mueang Chonburi, Chonburi, Thailand · EEC (Eastern Seaboard) market · location approximate to district level

Bridge Data Centres Chonburi Hyperscale Campus is a data center project in Khlong Tamru, Mueang Chonburi, Thailand, operated by Bridge Data Centres IIO (Thailand). It is under construction. It is planned for 214 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as under construction on 25 July 2025.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
214 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
Bridge Data Centres IIO (Thailand)
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Leaning yes5 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Tenant or own use.

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

134MW modern greenfield hyperscale build announced 2026 by a Bain-backed hyperscale platform targeting cloud/AI demand.

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

2025-07-25Under construction · w.media

Who is behind it

OperatorBridge Data Centres IIO (Thailand) · Colocation
Funder, EquityBain Capital

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, 2026-05THB 39,050m (about US$1.2bn)

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

The figure covers the whole campus.

Project team
Grid and substation worksTEDA Co., Ltd. · THB 685.5m · Jul 2025 Inferred by ArusGrid source ↗
Build a 115/11 kV indoor GIS substation and an internal 115 kV transmission line in Chonburi for Bridge Data Centres III (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Why we think so. The SAMART disclosure names the client as Bridge Data Centres III (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and the location as Chonburi province, but not the campus. Bridge's only Chonburi campus is this one at Khlong Tamru, and the 18 Jul 2025 letter fits the held construction start of 25 Jul 2025 and the held 115kV supply.
Utility infrastructureEastwater Stecon Utilities (JV of Eastwater and STECON) · Oct 2025 Confirmed source ↗
Industrial water plant and 10-year supply
Land
Site100 rai · Nov 2025 Reported source ↗
Site in Khlong Tamru Subdistrict, Chonburi; ~16 ha; seller/landlord and estate not named; Phase 1 ~200MW, USD1.2bn
Power supply
Grid supply115kV · Oct 2026 Reported source ↗
Operator page lists a 115kV power intake for QHI01 and QHI02. Utility not named. Page is undated; the date is the access date. · Applies to the whole campus.
Water and cooling
WaterIndustrial raw water · Eastwater Stecon Utilities · 9,000 m³ a day Confirmed source ↗
Raw water from Eastwater's network treated to industrial grade; 10-year contract from May 2026; local shortage concerns reported by Mongabay (Mar 2026)
WaterIndustrial raw water · Eastwater Stecon Utilities (EWS), with raw water from Eastwater · 3,300 million litres a year Reported source ↗
Peak demand of up to 3.30 million cubic metres a year (about 9,000 m3 a day) under a 10-year contract. Deliveries were scheduled to start in May 2026.
WaterIndustrial raw water · Eastwater Stecon Utilities (EWS), raw water from Eastwater (EASTW) · 9,000 m³ a day Confirmed source ↗
10-year industrial water purchase contract with Bridge Data Centres III (Thailand). Maximum demand is 3.3 million m3 a year, an average of 9,000 m3 a day. Supply was due to start in May 2026. EWS produces the water at its centralised industrial water plant.

Sources

  1. mingtiandi.com
  2. datacenterdynamics.com
  3. stecongroup.co.th
  4. bridgedatacentres.com
  5. w.media
  6. Bridge Data Centres inks 10-year water deal with Eastwater Stecon for its Thailand data center (W.Media, 2025-11-14)
  7. Bridge Data Centres breaks ground on hyperscale data center in Thailand (W.Media, 2025-07-25)
  8. อีสท์วอเตอร์ สเตคอน ยูทิลิตี้ส์ (EWS) จับมือ บริดจ์ ดาต้า เซ็นเตอร์ (BDC) พัฒนาระบบน้ำรองรับดาต้าเซ็นเตอร์ขนาด Hyperscale ที่ชลบุรี (Mitihoon, 2025-10-16)
  9. Thailand data centre licences top 1GW of power (ASEAN NOW, 2026-09-08)
  10. Thailand pauses 166 data centre projects to rewrite rules (The Nation Thailand, 2026-09-05)
  11. #SAMART คว้าบิ๊กโปรเจกต์ ลุย 2 งานสร้างสถานีไฟฟ้า (Mitihoon, 2025-09-01)
  12. อีสท์วอเตอร์ สเตคอน ยูทิลิตี้ส์ (EWS) จับมือ บริดจ์ ดาต้า เซ็นเตอร์ (BDC) พัฒนาระบบน้ำรองรับดาต้าเซ็นเตอร์ขนาด Hyperscale ที่ชลบุรี (Thai Post, 2025-10-17)
  13. อีสท์ วอเตอร์ ส่งน้ำป้อน Data Center ปักธงผู้นำเศรษฐกิจดิจิทัล (Mitihoon, 2026-05-14)
  14. บีโอไอไฟเขียว 6 โครงการ ลงทุนกว่า 9 แสนล้าน (Thailand Board of Investment, 2026-05-06)
  15. บอร์ด BOI อนุมัติส่งเสริมลงทุน Data Center-พลังงานหมุนเวียน 7 โครงการ เฉียด 1 แสนลบ. (InfoQuest, 2025-05-19)
  16. Locals say they're in the dark, even as Thailand's data dream shines bright (Dirty Data (Environmental Reporting Collective with Mongabay), 2026-02-27)

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