Thailand's TrueIDC broke ground on a 6 billion baht ($180m) data center in northern Bangkok last Friday.The project, which is TrueIDC’s seventh AI hyperscale data center, will go live in Q3 2027, said the company.Details about the data center’s size, exact location, and capacity were not provided. DCD has reached out to TrueIDC for more information.True Internet Data Center, part of True Corporation and owned by Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group, bills itself as Thailand’s largest data center and cloud service provider. According to its website, its Thai data centers are located in North Muangthong, East Bangna, Midtown Ratchada, and Midtown Pattanakarn, and the company also broke ground on a separate 250MW data center project outside Bangkok in April.The company also operates data centers in Myanmar and Vietnam.Thailand is a growing data center market. In January, the country’s Board of Investment approved some £3.1bn in foreign investments into data center projects, three of which were TrueIDC projects estimated to cost 45.3 billion baht ($1.44bn).Last year, the Thai Board of Investment approved 36 data center projects worth $23bn.