Equinix to pad Thai coffers with $500 million investment

Thailand has won a pair of high profile investments that boost its ambition to become a hub for datacenters and semiconductor manufacturing. One of these is a ten-year long 16.5 billion baht ($490 million) commitment from California-headquartered datacenter giant Equinix. The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) proclaimed the …

[gzgweilo]

<Late last week Thailand's prime minister, Paethongtarn Shinawatra, signed into existence a National Semiconductor Board, which he will personal chair. >

Not sure if just a typo (followed buy another - personal/personally?) but in case the author does not know Paetongtarn is actually a she - daughter of Thaksin Shinawatra

[Anonymous Coward]

I see what you did there

[Belgrat]

top punning

[Don Bannister]

Byeline

Have a couple of points for that !

[EricB123]

Cough, cough

Thailand has a serious enough smog problem without the data centers. They ARE going to use "clean energy" to power these monsters, aren't they?

[IGotOut]

Re: Cough, cough

I was coming to say something similar, but on digging, they seem to be ramping up generation of power and a shift away from fossils.

Currently renewables are 20% but they are aiming for 50% over the next several years.