Internet Thailand (INET) has announced that it plans to spend a further 1.2 billion Thai baht (US$34.9M) on the company’s Data Centre 3 in Saraburi province in central Thailand, according to a new report in  The Nation.

The latest investments come on top of 900 million baht (US$26.2M) on the first phase of the data center, bringing it from the current 2,000 sq m to 8,000 sq m over three new phases.

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Bangkok, Thailand – Thinkstock / hissatan

Reaching capacity

According to Wanchai Vach-shewadumrong, the deputy managing director of INET, the data center is already at 50 to 60 percent of its current capacity, and is expected to reach full capacity at the end of this year.

INET has two other data centers located in commercial buildings in the capital of Bangkok.

The company has its eyes on more than just data centers though, and is also investing in cloud services and software. INET says it has plans to provide an online marketplace for hybrid cloud services for multi-cloud providers to provide public cloud services through its marketplace.

Elsewhere, the company had also set up Thaidotcom as a marketplace for local software in a move it says will boost the software industry. The platform will allow software developers to provide their products online and expand their business base.

“We want to help local software companies expand their business base and provide their products in terms of a license or a project base into a cloud base or an account base, so that it will boost their productivity, increase their revenue and improve the software industry as a whole,” said Wanchai.

As we reported earlier, Thailand is a large country with a sizeable population approaching 70 million fueling demand for data center and cloud services. The Thailand government has also placed a stronger emphasis on technology and IT infrastructure of late, resulting in providers such as SuperNAP to invest 6 billion baht in a new data center in a partnership that includes True IDC.