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Amazon Web Services says repairs to UAE and Bahrain data centers damaged by Iranian drone strikes will take several more months, potentially leaving cloud operations impaired for nearly half a year. AWS halted billing for affected regions (ME-CENTRAL-1, ME-SOUTH-1) and had already waived March 2026 charges (~$150M). An internal report described 14 EC2 racks knocked offline, additional rack impacts, flooding from fire-suppression activation, and cooling-system failures. AWS urged customers to mig
Thailand’s Board of Investment approved a major expansion project by TikTok Systems (Thailand) Ltd. on May 6, greenlighting data-center and server deployments across Bangkok, Samut Prakan and Nakhon Pathom worth 842 billion Thai baht (≈¥177.9 billion). The buildout will increase storage and processing capacity to support rising digital service demand and strengthen Thailand’s role in regional digital infrastructure. TikTok also pledged non-infrastructure commitments—digital literacy and e-commerce training—to help local entrepreneurs and grow the digital workforce. The approval is part of six projects totaling 958 billion baht and signals sizable private investment by a major platform into Southeast Asian cloud and edge infrastructure.
Thailand's Board of Investment approved six major projects worth a combined 958 billion baht (~$29 billion) on May 6, with TikTok System (Thailand) Co., Ltd. leading the pack with approval for about 842 billion baht (~$25 billion). TikTok's investment will expand server deployments and data storage and processing infrastructure across Bangkok, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (North Lumpun) and Nakhon Pathom (North Liu) provinces to support rising digital services demand and strengthen Thailand's role in regional digital infrastructure. The move underscores major cloud and edge-capacity investments by large platform operators and reflects Thailand's push to boost power supply and clean energy access to enable strategic tech projects.
Amazon Web Services says repairs to UAE and Bahrain data centers damaged by Iranian drone strikes will take several more months, potentially leaving cloud operations impaired for nearly half a year. AWS halted billing for affected regions (ME-CENTRAL-1, ME-SOUTH-1) and had already waived March 2026 charges (~$150M). An internal report described 14 EC2 racks knocked offline, additional rack impacts, flooding from fire-suppression activation, and cooling-system failures. AWS urged customers to migrate workloads and use remote backups; some firms like Careem restored services by moving to other regions. The incident has prompted other data-center investors, such as Pure Data Centre Group, to pause Middle East investments amid escalating regional conflict and supply-chain risks.
Reuters : TikTok says it plans to invest €1B to build a second data center in Finland as part of its €12B European data sovereignty initiative for the data of 200M+ users — TikTok plans to invest 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) to build a second data centre in Finland in less than a year …