Taiwan just gave its life insurance industry, which collectively manages hundreds of billions in assets, the green light to invest in domestic AI infrastructure. It’s a significant policy shift that channels institutional capital toward data centers, hospitals, and logistics facilities while notably leaving crypto and blockchain entirely out of the conversation.
The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) revised its regulations in March 2025 to allow life insurers to take direct stakes or invest through private equity funds in local infrastructure projects.
A government betting big on AI
Taiwan’s government launched its “New Ten Major AI Construction Projects” in 2025, earmarking over NT$100 billion (roughly $3 billion) for advancing AI technology on the island. Data centers sit at the heart of that push, and insurers now have a clear path to fund them.
Before the updated guidelines, public infrastructure holdings among Taiwanese life insurers were valued at NT$532 billion as of December 2024.
