The close proximity to China, considerable digitization, industrial land development, expanding fibre connection, and rising cloud service provider presence make the Taiwan data centre market one of the APAC region's burgeoning data centre markets. With around 13 submarine cables connecting the market to various locations across the world and two additional cables now in the deployment phase, the market has great connectivity.

 

There are approximately seven distinct third-party data centre service providers operating about 15 sites in Taiwan's data centre market. Currently, the nation is seeing investments made in about six future facilities that will go into operation in the upcoming years.

 

The Taiwan AI Centre of Excellence (Taiwan AICoE), established by the Taiwanese government in March 2023, aims to commercialise artificial intelligence. With the installation of effective infrastructure in the market, the growing use of artificial intelligence will considerably increase data traffic and the demand for data centres. Because of the larger bandwidth of the data traffic produced by these high-power computing technologies, the rack power density will increase. Furthermore, one of the most important factors in choosing a location for a data centre is robust connectivity. 

 

Two offshore wind energy projects, Wei-Na and Wei-Long, in Taiwan, with a combined generating capacity of roughly 1.8 GW, are scheduled to begin construction in September 2022, according to Vena Energy, an APAC-based renewable energy business. By 2050, Taiwan intends to invest over $170 billion in the decarbonization of its public and commercial sectors.