You can Google it! The Chief Investment Officer of global tech firm Google told Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that the company will build a cloud data center in the Kingdom as part of its expansion.

Google executive Ruth Porat told Prime Minister Paetongtarn that as part of its investment the company would work with Thai organizations, including the Ministry of Education, to provide training and education in digital skills for students and members of the workforce.

The investment represents another win for Thailand in its campaign to become a digital and technology hub in the region. Recently, the Kingdom has secured investments or commitments to invest in building data centers from several leading tech firms such as Amazon Web Services, Apple, Supernap, Equinix and Microsoft among others.

Companies have been choosing Thailand as a prime location for data centers and other digital investments because of the Kingdom’s strategic location in the region, government privileges and incentives for digital industries, the extensive and up-to-date infrastructure, and its considerable lead in digital development compared to many of its neighbors.

In 2024, the Board of Investment approved over $2 billion in projects for data centers in the Kingdom, with over 37 data centers and cloud projects operational, planned or under construction. Data centers are foundational to advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), and their burgeoning numbers in the Kingdom bode well for Thailand’s competitiveness in this new tech era.

Google’s cloud data center will be located in Chonburi province, part of the Eastern Economic Corridor, the three-province advanced industrial zone just east of Bangkok and brimming with advanced infrastructure to support high-tech businesses.

The Nation newspaper reported that the Google cloud data center is slated to be operational by 2027.