Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing service arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, plans to launch its first data centre in Thailand next year to capture surging demand for cloud usage in the country.
The move is expected to fire up competition in the segment in Thailand where Chinese tech powerhouses Tencent and Huawei have two and three data centres, respectively.
Thailand’s spending on public cloud service is expected to surge 31.7% year-on-year to 26.8 billion baht in 2021 and grow 28.2% to 34.4 billion baht in 2022, according to Gartner, a global research firm.
“To support Thailand’s growing spending on cloud services and demand for data centres, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, Alibaba Cloud plans to launch its first data centre in…
