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True IDC East Bangna Campus

Bang Sao Thong / Bang Na, Samut Prakan, Thailand · Bangkok metro market · location approximate to district level

True IDC East Bangna Campus is a data center project in Bang Sao Thong / Bang Na, Thailand, operated by True Internet Data Center (True IDC). It is operational and expanding. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Record last checked against its sources on 21 October 2026.

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Stage
Expanding
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
True Internet Data Center (True IDC)
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Verified
Will it get built?Built7 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.

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

Bangkok metro holds 23 active projects with 893 MW of planned IT load between them, and True IDC East Bangna Campus has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 6 are operational, 3 are operational and expanding, 5 are under construction, 2 are being commissioned, 3 are at the land and permitting stage and 4 are announced only. Published colocation vacancy in Bangkok metro was 22.1% as of June 2026, on 113 MW of operational colocation capacity as counted by Cushman & Wakefield. Vacancy excludes hyperscaler self-build.

True IDC has 3 others in Thailand tracked by ArusGrid, including True IDC EEC AI Hyperscale Campus, True IDC North Muangthong and True IDC Data Center 7 (North Bangkok). It sits on the True IDC East Bangna campus. Named funding comes from Charoen Pokphand Group and Global Infrastructure Partners 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 build is phased. Phase 1 is operational with a 2019 target; Phase 2 is operational with a 2022 target; Phases 3-5 + AI Hyperscale building is operational with a 2025 target. The money on record is THB 10bn (about US$290m) as of January 2024, the announced investment.

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 4 public sources for this project, the latest dated 13 March 2018, and last checked the record on 21 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

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

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Hosts what True IDC brands 'Thailand's first AI Hyperscale Data Center' (Uptime Tier III Facility certified, 2025). Countervailing signal: current deployments cited at only ~12kW/rack, so the AI-readiness may be marketing ahead of density.

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

Phases

Phase 1 · OperationalSize not published, target 2019
Phase 2 · OperationalSize not published, target 2022
Phases 3-5 + AI Hyperscale building · OperationalSize not published, target 2025

Who is behind it

OperatorTrue Internet Data Center (True IDC) · Colocation
Funder, EquityCharoen Pokphand Group
Funder, EquityGlobal Infrastructure Partners

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

Announced investment, 2024-01THB 10bn (about US$290m)

The figure covers several facilities.

Platform deals that include it

Global Infrastructure Partners investment in True IDC
Platform acquisition, 2025-05
Not disclosed

Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.

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
Main contractorChristiani & Nielsen (Thai) PCL · Nov 2023 Inferred by ArusGrid source ↗
Three 4-storey DC buildings (~30,000 sqm): lifts, plumbing, lighting, grounding, guardhouse, external works
Why we think so. Project code IDC BNA 3,4,5 in Bang Sao Thong, Samut Prakan for 'a leading provider of data center solutions' matches only True IDC's East Bangna campus in our index.

Sources checked 2026-10-21

  1. trueidc.com
  2. baxtel.com
  3. datacentermap.com
  4. True IDC ลงทุน 1,000 ล้านบาท ตั้งดาต้าเซ็นเตอร์แห่งที่ 4 'ทรู ไอดีชี – อีสต์ บางนา' (Brand Inside, 2018-03-13)

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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.