APAC Data Centre Update

H1 2025

Asia Pacific maintained strong momentum in data centre expansion throughout the first half of 2025, adding nearly 2,300MW to its development pipeline. The region’s operational capacity now stands at around 12.7GW, with 3.2GW under construction and a further 13.3GW in planning stages.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud services, and capital investment stood out as dominant themes across Asia Pacific. Governments and leading technology firms accelerated AI infrastructure, aligning policy and innovation to meet rising demand for cloud computing and large language models (LLMs). Data centre operators are increasingly building facilities designed for AI workloads, reinforcing the region’s ambitions to lead in global AI infrastructure despite regulatory and geopolitical headwinds.

Capital markets remained robust, signalling continued investor confidence in Asia Pacific’s digital infrastructure. A surge in private equity acquisitions highlighted the sector’s appeal as a long-term investment and growing demand for AI-ready and hyperscale platforms.

Despite some hyperscalers slowdowns, cloud service providers continued expanding, launching new regions and AI-focused developments, and the region continues to attract significant investment and innovation in digital infrastructure.

Our H1 2025 Asia Pacific Data Centre Update covers key nuances of eight prominent primary city markets – Tokyo, External Link Singapore, External Link Sydney, External Link Mumbai, External Link Hong Kong, External Link China, External Link Johor, External LinkSeoul, External Link and Jakarta, External Link whilst also providing an overview of six city secondary markets of Bangkok, Delhi, Taipei, Auckland, External LinkManila, External Link and Ho Chi Minh City, External Link in order of the size of their current operational capacities.

Also included in this report is our Asia Pacific Data Centre Market Maturity Index External Link (through refined methodology & complimented with additional data validation efforts), which forecasts the potential evolution of 30 markets across the region over the next decade. The parametric based weighted evaluation of the markets’ factors existing & planned capacities, vacancy levels, operator presence & scale and individual asset level build capacities.

*For all analysis, Asia Pacific region includes Australia, Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam only.