Australia’s strict foreign investment scheme, power supply issues and tight government data rules are among some of the tightest regulations facing data centre investors in the APAC region, according to new market analysis.
The “insufficient carrots and burdensome sticks” that King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) found are facing data centre investors in Australia haven’t yet slowed surging investments.
But regional competitors like Thailand, South Korea and Singapore aren’t demanding as much from investors looking to lay digital infrastructure in a region with 60 per cent of the world’s population and growing economies.
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