IN FOCUS: Awash with billions in Big Tech money, but Southeast Asia’s cloud and AI boom faces limits

Tehnologie

Billions of dollars in AI and cloud infrastructure investments have poured into Southeast Asia. Now, the region has to plug its digital skills gap, tackle the industry’s carbon footprint and come up with a rulebook. BANGKOK: It takes the press of a button for the secret room to be revealed. A solid wall slides open, revealing the innards of a data centre through an expansive glass pane. Rows and rows of black cages, humming with sound and lights blinking inside, stretch into the distance. These