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Thailand Land Bridge: The Trillion-Baht Corridor Stopped Post-Review
A rate of return falling from 8 per cent to 4.8. A net present value moving from positive 600 billion baht to negative 10,287 million. Two feasibility studies that disagreed for years, and a committee that finally chose between them. Thailand has stopped its trillion-baht Land Bridge and named a 110 km railway in its place. A rate of return falling from 8 per cent to 4.8. A net present value moving from positive 600 billion baht to negative 10,287 million. Two feasibility studies that disagreed for years, and a committee that finally chose between them. Thailand has stopped its trillion-baht Land Bridge and named a 110 km railway in its place. MCG reads the decision past the announcement: whose arithmetic won, what the replacement has not been through, and why it is being built to a gauge that cannot serve its own purpose.
Thailand's Data Centre Rules in 2026: The Bar for Approval Has Risen
Forty-two approved projects, 3,400 megawatts and 750 billion baht of investment. Not one new application filed since April. In eight days in August, a central bank governor, a cabinet meeting and an investment board rewrote the terms on which Thailand accepts data centre investment. MCG reads the new bar past the announcements: the five gateways now standing between a sponsor and a grid connection, why the approved cohort is not insulated, and what the state is actually rationing.
Concrete Is Not Connectivity: What Thailand's Aviation Build-Out Actually Decides
Thailand is building its most ambitious airport expansion in a generation. But its future as an aviation hub will be decided in the institutional layer: its carriers, its MRO and cargo ecosystem, and the partnerships now forming in Paris, not in terminal capacity. A strategic read for 2026.
Resilience Over Efficiency: How Geopolitical Risk Is Redrawing Asia's Digital Infrastructure Map
As subsea cable investment accelerates across Asia-Pacific, the logic driving it has shifted from efficiency to resilience. The cables being laid today are not just infrastructure — they are a map of how capital, governments, and great powers expect the next decade to unfold. MCG examines what this means for investors and multinationals operating in the region.
Thailand’s Data Centre Moment in a Shifting Global Landscape
As AI demand accelerates and geopolitical risks reshape global infrastructure, Thailand is emerging as a strategic location for data centre investment in Southeast Asia.