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GSA Data Center Chonburi

Chonburi, Thailand · EEC (Eastern Seaboard) market · location approximate to city level

GSA Data Center Chonburi is a data center project in Chonburi, Thailand, operated by GSA Data Center. It is under construction. It is planned for 38 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as under construction on 9 January 2026.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
38 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
GSA Data Center
Joint venture
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: Power arranged.

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, disclosed client (confirmed), committed or approved capital, dated, sized phase, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

GSA markets itself as Thailand's first liquid-cooled DC for GPU/AI workloads and GSA01 has live NVIDIA GB200 systems; GSA02 is Microsoft's contracted Thailand cloud-region host. Inference from sister-site design + hyperscaler anchor, not a dated GSA02 cooling spec.

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.

Phases

GSA02 · Under construction38 MW, target 2027

Stage history

2026-01-09Under construction · kaohooninternational.com

Who is behind it

OperatorGSA Data Center · Joint venture
Funder, Joint venture partnerGulf Development
Funder, Joint venture partnerSingtel
Funder, Joint venture partnerAdvanced Info Service (AIS)

Who uses the compute

Tenant · hyperscalerMicrosoft · confirmed

Colocation and data center services for Microsoft's Thailand cloud region · as of 2025-10-28

Gulf Development's own release says GSA Data Center 02 Company Limited (GSA02) executed a colocation and data center services agreement with Microsoft Operations (Thailand) to serve Microsoft's cloud region. GSA02 is the Chonburi entity. The ADVANC connected-transaction filing of 27 Jan 2025 records a 12 rai land sale to GSA02 in Chonburi and the BOI approval of Mar 2025 lists GSA Data Center 02 Co. Ltd. at 35MW in Chonburi.

Source · GULF Forges Strategic Partnership with Microsoft for Data Center Services and to Advance Cloud and AI Growth in Thailand, Paving the Way for Regional Digital Hub Status (Gulf Development PCL, 2025-10-28)

Source · ADVANC Invests THB270 Million to Support GSA02 in Data Center Expansion (Kaohoon International, 2025-01-28)

Money at this site

Approved by a government investment agency, 2025-03THB 13.5bn (about US$400m)

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

Platform deals that include it

GSA02 (Gulf) data centre services agreement for Microsoft's Thailand cloud region
Anchor lease, 2025-10
Not disclosed

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

Land
Land sellerFax Lite Company Limited (FXL), a subsidiary of Advanced Info Service (ADVANC) · 12.1 rai · THB 145.2m · freehold · Jan 2025 Reported source ↗
Outright sale of 12-0-39.25 rai (12 rai, 0 ngan, 39.25 square wah) in Chonburi to GSA Data Center 02 Co Ltd. Price based on a Knight Frank appraisal. Approved by the ADVANC board on 27 Jan 2025. The earlier note held the area and price but not the seller.
Power supply
Power allocation or planGulf Development (GULF) subsidiaries · Oct 2025 Reported source ↗
GULF will supply clean energy and infrastructure to the data centre through its subsidiaries. · Stated for GSA Data Center 02 (GSA02), the GULF subsidiary that signed the Microsoft contract. No capacity, utility link or PPA terms are given.

Sources

  1. mingtiandi.com
  2. boi.go.th
  3. news.microsoft.com
  4. kaohooninternational.com
  5. kaohooninternational.com
  6. GULF acquires 70% shareholding in GSA Data Center 03; GSA02 under construction, COD Q1 2027 (Kaohoon International, 2026-01-09)
  7. GULF Forges Strategic Partnership with Microsoft for Data Center Services (Gulf Development, 2025-10-28)
  8. GULF Gears Up Digital Expansion With Two New Thailand Data Center Subsidiaries (Kaohoon International, 2026-07-24)
  9. GULF's core profit surged 74% YoY to a record high of THB 12,332 million in Q2/2026, driven by the energy business and share of profit from AIS (Gulf Development, 2026-08-06)
  10. GULF Gears Up Digital Expansion With Two New Thailand Data Center Subsidiaries (Kaohoon International, 2026-07-24)
  11. GULF จับมือ Microsoft ปักธงศูนย์ข้อมูลระดับโลก ผนึกกำลัง AIS ดันไทยศูนย์กลางดิจิทัลอาเซียน (Thansettakij, 2025-10-29)

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