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2026-07-15 12:40:11
[Thailand plans to impose higher electricity prices on data centers to subsidize residential electricity consumption; specific standards to be released in August] (1) Thai Deputy Interior Minister and member of the Energy Policy Committee, Polapi Suvinchivik, told the media that the government plans to impose higher electricity prices on data centers, aiming to use the additional electricity revenue to subsidize residential electricity consumption. (2) The official clarified that the additional electricity fees collected from data centers will be used specifically for this purpose, separately from residential electricity bills, and will not be mixed up. (3) The Thai Energy Regulatory Commission expects to officially release specific electricity price standards for data centers as early as the electricity bill settlement cycle in August this year.
