Empyrion Digital enters Taiwan with 10MW data centre
Taiwan has stopped approving large data centres in the north. Empyrion got through.
Empyrion Digital yesterday broke ground on its first data centre in Taiwan, a 10MW facility located in Taipei's Neihu Technology Hub.
TW1 data centre
When completed, the TW1 data centre will offer 7MW of IT load. It currently has a ready for service (RFS) scheduled for Q4 2027.
Here's what we know about it: a five-storey data centre designed for optimal WUE, with vertical green walls and solar panels. It will meet Taiwan's Green Building Gold certification.
Empyrion Digital says the data centre supports liquid cooling and high-density deployments. It isn't clear if it has secured customers planning to deploy AI workloads.
Fast growth
Empyrion Digital is a portfolio company of Seraya Partners that has expanded aggressively with multiple data centres across the region.
Last month, it announced a 200MW data centre campus in Malaysia with an RFS of Q4 2026. It is understood that 145MW of initial power allocation from TNB has been secured.
In July 2025, Empyrion Digital held the grand opening of its 29.4MW KR1 Gangnam Data Centre in South Korea, the first new data centre in the Gangnam area in years.
Last March, it received the approval of the Thailand BOI to develop its first data centre in Bangkok. The 12MW IT load facility has an RFS date of Q4 2026.
If there's one thing I'm hearing consistently from Empyrion Digital in my conversations with them, it would be its focus on sustainability.
This is harder than it sounds, and an area where many others don't actually walk the talk.
The Taiwan market
Since 2024, Taiwan has stopped approving new data centres larger than 5MW in northern regions due to insufficient local power supply and grid bottlenecks. It isn't clear how Empyrion Digital managed to get its data centre approved.
Nvidia last year did announce an AI data centre in Taiwan, though that will be built with Foxconn in the southwestern city of Kaohsiung. To be built in phases, the first 27MW facility is on track to launch by the first half of this year.
TW1's construction also comes amid significantly tightened regulations for large-scale data centres, which now has a PUE cap of 1.3 for hyperscale data centres and 1.4 for colocation data centres.
The new framework also requires data centre operators to provide detailed information on seven key evaluation criteria, which include energy efficiency and power and cooling systems, among others.
