{
  "id": 6106662,
  "title": "Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/thailand-pauses-all-datacenter-builds-and-approvals-6106662",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-07T01:05:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Register",
    "slug": "the-register",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/09/07/thailand-pauses-all-datacenter-builds-and-approvals/5294688"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Thailand's National Economic and Social Development Council has paused all datacenter builds and approvals in the country to develop appropriate regulations. The Council announced the pause after a meeting of its Datacenter Business Policy Committee, where Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul acknowledged datacenters' importance to the nation's economy, but admitted the government lacks data on their current operations and future builds. The government wants to establish a unified regulatory framework and determine the number and format of necessary datacenters. Operators and investors will have a week to submit information about their operations. The Council will also consider datacenters using over 2 MW of electricity as industrial businesses and introduce resource utilization fees. Fujitsu, a Japanese tech giant, has not budgeted for compensation related to the Horizon project, which it is waiting for the results of the statutory inquiry. Meanwhile, NEC may not commercialize a quantum computer it developed, as it believes the return on investment will be elusive. South Korea is developing its own cybersecurity model, with Naver leading the effort to build a foundation AI model focused on security. The South Korean government also launched the \"AI for all\" project to create a free government-operated chatbot. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek plans to purchase over 160,000 Huawei GPUs for an inferencing datacenter, suggesting that China may not authorize imports of Nvidia hardware. APNIC, the regional internet registry for the Asia Pacific region, is advancing discussions on improving the diversity of its community leadership roles.",
  "summary": "PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; And more!",
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        "title": "Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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