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K2 Data Centres BKK31-32, Rayong

Rayong (Eastern Economic Corridor), Rayong, Thailand · EEC (Eastern Seaboard) market · location approximate to city level

K2 Data Centres BKK31-32, Rayong is a data center project in Rayong (Eastern Economic Corridor), Thailand, operated by K2 Data Centres (K2 Strategic). It is at the land and permitting stage. It is planned for 50 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 4 October 2025.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
50 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
K2 Data Centres (K2 Strategic)
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: 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, dated, sized phase, three or more sources. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Operator states air-and-liquid hybrid cooling and explicitly targets hyperscalers, cloud providers and AI (K2 site, updated Oct 2025). Liquid-cooling capability is designed-in, but no dated deployment or named AI tenant, so not 'confirmed'.

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

BKK31-32 (16 data halls) · Land and permitting50 MW, target 2026

Stage history

2025-10-04Land and permitting · k2strategic.com

Who is behind it

OperatorK2 Data Centres (K2 Strategic) · Colocation
Funder, EquityKuok Group

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.

Land
Site32.8 acres Confirmed source ↗
Site area only; seller/estate not disclosed
Water and cooling
CoolingHybrid air and liquid cooling · design PUE <1.4x Confirmed source ↗
Air and liquid hybrid cooling (campus page)

Sources

  1. k2strategic.co
  2. k2strategic.co
  3. forbes.com
  4. Thailand: Data center construction and expansion likely cause significant concerns over water scarcity and pollution, local communities claim; incl. cos. responses and non-responses (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre)

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