Southeast Asia's digital economy is set to reach $368 billion in 2026 as AI investment grows, but fragmented data rules complicate regional operations.
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Thailand becomes the first country in Microsoft's 19-nation AI jobs initiative, linking AI education and workforce training with employer demand.
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Bitdeer is expanding its AI infrastructure footprint in Malaysia with a new 67 MW facility designed for NVIDIA Blackwell systems. Here's what's confirmed about its rollout and customer commitments.
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Infineon opened a new Thailand semiconductor hub with about 350 employees and plans to grow the workforce to roughly 1,000.
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Tencent reportedly plans to lease about 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in Southeast Asia under a five-year deal worth roughly $7 billion.
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ADB lifted Southeast Asia’s growth outlook as AI-linked investment expands, but infrastructure, skills, and costs are creating uneven gains.
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The Philippines’ $34.4 billion AI infrastructure plan targets 1.5 GW of data center capacity by 2033, as two US hyperscalers evaluate sites.
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Five Singapore firms account for 98% of Southeast Asia’s data-center equity funding as new cloud and AI capacity spreads across the region.
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Johor’s data center pipeline has reached 8,542 MW, but a 0.7% colocation vacancy rate, grid constraints, and water demand mean regional IT buyers need to separate announced capacity from infrastructure they can actually deploy.
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RedHook malware uses fake banking and government apps to steal data and control Android phones, with attacks confirmed in Vietnam and Indonesia so far.
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AWS expanded Amazon Connect into four agentic AI tools for supply chain, hiring, customer service, and healthcare workflows, with humans still in control.
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Samsung is reportedly considering a $4 billion chip packaging and testing project in Vietnam, deepening the country’s role in the global semiconductor supply chain.
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