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Bridge Data Centres Chonburi Hyperscale Campus

Khlong Tamru, Mueang Chonburi, Chonburi, Thailand · EEC (Eastern Seaboard) market · location approximate to district level

Bridge Data Centres Chonburi Hyperscale Campus is a data center project in Khlong Tamru, Mueang Chonburi, Thailand, operated by Bridge Data Centres IIO (Thailand). It is under construction. It is planned for 214 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as under construction on 25 July 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 21 October 2026.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
214 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Bridge Data Centres IIO (Thailand)
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Leaning yes5 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Tenant or own use.

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.

Where it sits

EEC (Eastern Seaboard) holds 21 active projects with 3,703 MW of planned IT load between them, and Bridge Data Centres Chonburi Hyperscale Campus ranks 5th by planned capacity. Of those, 2 are operational, 1 is operational and expanding, 9 are under construction, 7 are at the land and permitting stage and 2 are announced only. No third party publishes a colocation vacancy rate for EEC (Eastern Seaboard), and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Bridge Data Centres has 1 other in Thailand and 6 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including Bridge Data Centres BKK01 (ex-WHA Bangkok DC). It sits on the QHI01 (Khlong Tamru, Mueang Chonburi) campus. Named funding comes from Bain Capital on the equity side. No user of the capacity is on the public record as of 2026-10-01, after a check of operator, landlord, contractor, regulator and lender documents. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

The stage was recorded as under construction on 25 July 2025. The money on record is THB 39,050m (about US$1.2bn) as of May 2026, a government approval ceiling.

Grid power for a large industrial user in Thailand costs about US$0.10 per kWh as of July 2026, the country figure ArusGrid applies where a site has no published rate. The US export control position for advanced AI chips in Thailand, as of 27 September 2026, is recorded as “No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced”. ArusGrid holds 10 public sources for this project, the latest dated 8 September 2026, and last checked the record on 21 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.

Named funderYes
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalYes
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

134MW modern greenfield hyperscale build announced 2026 by a Bain-backed hyperscale platform targeting cloud/AI demand.

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 are published on the Methodology page.

US licence required for this destination as enforcedNo
A party headquartered in China or Macau on the projectNo
Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced · No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced (2026-09-27) source

Stage history

2025-07-25Under construction · w.media

Who is behind it

OperatorBridge Data Centres IIO (Thailand) · Colocation
Funder, EquityBain Capital

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.

Money at this site

Approved by a government investment agency, 2026-05THB 39,050m (about US$1.2bn)

An approval figure is an incentive ceiling. It often covers a first phase and can exclude land or IT equipment.

The figure covers the whole campus.

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

No published price band exists for Thailand, and ArusGrid does not estimate from the regional benchmark alone. What was searched is listed on the Colo prices page.

Project team
Utility infrastructureEastwater Stecon Utilities (JV of Eastwater and STECON) · Oct 2025 Confirmed source ↗
Industrial water plant and 10-year supply
Land
Site100 rai · Nov 2025 Reported source ↗
Site in Khlong Tamru Subdistrict, Chonburi; ~16 ha; seller/landlord and estate not named; Phase 1 ~200MW, USD1.2bn
Power supply
Grid supply115kV · Oct 2026 Reported source ↗
Operator page lists a 115kV power intake for QHI01 and QHI02. Utility not named. Page is undated; the date is the access date. · Applies to the whole campus.
Water and cooling
WaterIndustrial raw water · Eastwater Stecon Utilities · 9,000 m³ a day Confirmed source ↗
Raw water from Eastwater's network treated to industrial grade; 10-year contract from May 2026; local shortage concerns reported by Mongabay (Mar 2026)
WaterIndustrial raw water · Eastwater Stecon Utilities (EWS), with raw water from Eastwater · 3,300 million litres a year Reported source ↗
Peak demand of up to 3.30 million cubic metres a year (about 9,000 m3 a day) under a 10-year contract. Deliveries were scheduled to start in May 2026.

Sources checked 2026-10-21

  1. mingtiandi.com
  2. datacenterdynamics.com
  3. stecongroup.co.th
  4. bridgedatacentres.com
  5. w.media
  6. Bridge Data Centres inks 10-year water deal with Eastwater Stecon for its Thailand data center (W.Media, 2025-11-14)
  7. Bridge Data Centres breaks ground on hyperscale data center in Thailand (W.Media, 2025-07-25)
  8. อีสท์วอเตอร์ สเตคอน ยูทิลิตี้ส์ (EWS) จับมือ บริดจ์ ดาต้า เซ็นเตอร์ (BDC) พัฒนาระบบน้ำรองรับดาต้าเซ็นเตอร์ขนาด Hyperscale ที่ชลบุรี (Mitihoon, 2025-10-16)
  9. Thailand data centre licences top 1GW of power (ASEAN NOW, 2026-09-08)
  10. Thailand pauses 166 data centre projects to rewrite rules (The Nation Thailand, 2026-09-05)

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Planned MW is IT load, the power available to servers, unless marked otherwise. Running capacity is rarely published, so a missing figure means undisclosed. Definitions, sourcing standards and evidence rules are on the Methodology page. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0. Corrections go to corrections@arusgrid.com. Dataset updated 2026-10-18.