Bain Capital's Bridge Data Centres (Bridge DC) has broken ground on a facility in Thailand.

Located south of Bangkok in the province of Chonburi, QH101 will offer up to 200MW of capacity at full buildout.

This follows the company’s announcement that it had secured $2.8bn in bank financing in March of this year in order to “accelerate development of hyperscale campuses in high-growth markets, including Malaysia, Thailand, and beyond.”

Bridge DC specialises in the APAC region. In Malaysia, it has six data centers in operation or development. The company announced plans for the first 16MW building at its MY03 site in Kuala Lumpur’s Mranti Park in 2021, and committed to an expansion in 2023. The company operates two facilities in Cyberjaya with a third in development, and launched a data center outside Johor in 2022.

It currently operates a single facility in Bangkok, which it purchased in 2022.

Thailand is a growing data center market with interest coming from China and abroad.

In June, China’s Haoyang Data bought land in Rayong province for a 300MW facility, and the Thai Board of Investment approved a 23.7bn baht ($727m) data center operated by China’s Stratus Technology in the same month. Singapore’s Empyrion had its 4.72bn baht ($140.5m) investment in a 12MW data center approved by the BOI in March, Alibaba Cloud launched a second data center in the country in February, and AWS launched a cloud region in January.

Bain is a private investment firm, previously helmed by presidential hopeful and former senator Mitt Romney. It owns various data center companies that operate in different locales, including EMEA-focused Hscale, which launched in May of this year, China-focused ChinData, which it is looking to sell, and US-focused DC Blox.

The firm has approximately $185bn in assets under management.