en.Wedoany.com Reported - Comin Asia announced on Monday that it will partner with Nokia to design and deploy AI-ready data center infrastructure in Southeast Asia, with initial projects launching in Cambodia and Laos.
The collaboration aims to address the growing demand for secure, autonomous, and scalable AI infrastructure in Southeast Asia, particularly in emerging and underserved markets where factors such as power supply and regulatory conditions influence deployment decisions. The partnership focuses on modular, indoor, and edge-ready data center deployments, enabling enterprises and governments to process data near its source while maintaining control over data sovereignty, privacy, and operational resilience.
Under the agreement, Comin Asia serves as the regional system integrator and delivery partner, while Nokia provides technical support, including high-performance data center fabrics, automation platforms, and secure connectivity solutions for AI workloads. The two parties will deliver end-to-end infrastructure systems covering data center networking (involving IP, optical transport, and switching architectures), edge computing frameworks, secure connectivity, AI workload automation and orchestration, and energy-aware infrastructure optimization.
Initial deployments and feasibility assessments are already underway in Cambodia and Laos, with plans to expand to more Southeast Asian markets as infrastructure and regulatory conditions mature. Comin Asia noted that the projects will align with each country's policies and energy landscape: Cambodia is an early deployable market for localized infrastructure; Laos, with its surplus power capacity and cross-border network connectivity, has the potential to become a regional AI infrastructure hub; Thailand faces grid pressure and regulatory complexity when building large-scale data centers.
The partnership aims to transform these conditions into operational infrastructure, implement national policies on data sovereignty, privacy, and compliance, reduce reliance on the global hyperscaler ecosystem, and build resilient localized infrastructure. Application areas include enterprise AI deployments, government digital infrastructure initiatives, and industries such as energy, telecommunications, finance, and the public sector.
Unlike hyperscale data center projects, this collaboration focuses on modular, scalable infrastructure in frontier and underserved markets, integrating considerations of power, policy, and infrastructure design, and adopting an operations-first model. Comin Asia CEO Ivan Keogh stated that the focus of this partnership is to build infrastructure in markets best suited for deployment, not just those receiving the most attention, reflecting a trend where power, proximity, and policy are becoming more critical than capital. Nokia Thailand and Laos Regional Manager Ajay Sharma said that by combining Nokia's proven data center networking solutions with Comin Asia's regional execution capabilities, the two parties are building a new type of distributed, secure, and deployment-ready AI infrastructure.
