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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.
After the “Sick Man of Asia” Diagnosis: What Thailand’s Election Reveals About Change and Its Limits
As Thailand is labelled the “sick man of Asia”, this analysis examines what the February election can and cannot change, and how structural economic weakness, political fragmentation, and constitutional constraints now reinforce one another.
Thailand’s “Sick Man of Asia” Moment: The Structural Limits of an Electoral Reset
A political economy analysis of Thailand’s slowdown following FT’s “sick man of Asia” moment — and why the election alone cannot reset structural constraints.