Nopadej Karnasuta, chairman of the FTI's Power Producer Industry Club and president of B.Grimm Power, has called for the relocation and expansion of data centres in Thailand to provide significant benefits to local suppliers and contractors. He emphasized that investors should engage local businesses, from construction to subcontractors, to ensure economic benefits are widely distributed. Since January, the Board of Investment (BoI) has approved seven large data centre projects valued at over 96 billion baht, with 36 additional projects worth 728 billion baht submitted for approval in 2025, primarily from global hyperscale operators. Karnasuta also proposed that data centres be permitted to own dedicated power plants, particularly natural gas facilities, to meet their substantial electricity demands. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is expanding grid capacity in the Eastern Economic Corridor, where many data centres are located, with plans to add at least 4,000 megawatts. Additionally, the water supply for cooling data centres is secured through a robust pipeline network delivering 600 million cubic metres annually, according to Bordin Udol, president of Eastern Water Resources Development and Management Plc.