Taiwan Says Power Issues Prevent New Large Data Centers in North
- Power capacity in north is declining as plants shutter
- Island doesn’t have electricity shortages in other regions
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Taiwan has stopped approving data centers bigger than 5 megawatts north of Taoyuan, as there is insufficient power supply in the region.
While the island as a whole doesn’t have an electricity shortage, there’s a bottleneck in the north, which is reliant on other areas for supply and needs more grid infrastructure and new sources of electricity to meet rising demand, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said in a Facebook post. There have been no approvals of large data centers in the north since September last year, local media reported, citing the chairman of Taiwan Power Co.