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BANGKOK, Jan. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) said today that applications for investment promotion in 2024 soared 35% in value to 1.14 trillion baht (ca. USD 33 billion), the highest level since 2014, led by large foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in data centers, cloud services, as well as semiconductor and advanced electronics manufacturing.
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The digital sector, which includes data centers and cloud services, topped last year for the first time the sectorial rankings by value with 150 projects worth a combined 243.3 billion baht in pledged investment. Major projects in this sector in 2024 included applications to setup large data centers by units of large tech and cloud services companies such as Google (Alphabet) from the U.S., Australia’s NextDC, India’s CtrlS Datacenters, and Singapore-based GDS IDC Services PTE Ltd.
The electronics and electrical appliances (E&E) sector, which had attracted the largest share of investment in recent years, came in second last year with 407 projects worth 231.7 billion baht. Noticeable large projects in this sector last year included an investment by a unit of Foxsemicon Integrated Technology Inc. (Fiti Group) to build a factory to make high-precision machinery parts and equipment for the semiconductor industry, and an investment by FT1 Corporation, a Thailand–Hong Kong SAR–Singapore wafer manufacturing joint venture between Hana Microelectronics and PTT Group to produce silicon carbide wafers.
The automotive sector came in third with 309 projects worth 102.4 billion baht. Agriculture and food ranked fourth with 329 projects worth 87.6 billion baht, followed by petrochemicals and chemicals with 235 projects worth a combined value of 49.1 billion baht.
“Investors’ response to our policy to promote Thailand as a safe and neutral location for large digital sector and smart electronics projects has been very impressive last year, with important projects by groups like Google, in cloud services, and Foxsemicon, in the semiconductor supply chain,” said Mr. Narit Therdsteerasukdi, Secretary General of the BOI. “We expect this trend to get even stronger in 2025 following the setup of Thailand’s Semiconductor Board and the need for more companies to mitigate risk in view of the current geopolitical situation.”
In December, Thailand’s newly appointed National Semiconductor and Advanced Electronics Policy Committee, or Semiconductor Board, approved the framework for the sector’s strategy, and for the development of a skilled workforce to prepare for a new wave of FDI which the Government estimates could attract 500 billion baht investment by 2029.
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