Author: James Soh, Kindle ebook published on 22th of October, 2025. Paperback edition on 28th of October 2025, Hardcover edition on 12th of November, 2025. The Data Center Primer by James Soh is a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving data center ecosystem, which serves as the foundational infrastructure for artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and machine learning. Drawing from over 30 years of experience in designing and managing facilities across Southeast Asia

Thailand: The Demand and Policy Is in Place. The Operators Need You. Here Is How to Be Ready. Every time you use TrueMoney to split a bill, check your balance on KBank’s app, stream on TrueVisions, or pay for a Grab or Bolt ride, a request leaves your device and arrives somewhere. Not in the cloud in the abstract sense. In a purpose-built building. A data center building in Pathum Thani, Bangkok, Chonburi, or Rayong, staffed by engineers and technicians keeping systems runnin

James Soh This article speaks to all three audiences: C-level leadership, design and construction specialists, and operational leaders and the operations workforce. Let me tell you about a moment of recognition. Earlier this year I was studying for the NVIDIA NCA-AIIO certification. I came to it as someone with more than 30 years in the data center industry, and before that, as a systems administrator on a DECVax minicomputer cluster. I sat with the material on GPU architectu

Article 4: The Operations Workforce the AI DC Needs James Soh This article speaks most directly to operational leaders. The implications run through to C-level leadership and the operations workforce. There is a boundary that exists in almost every data center operations team even in Southeast Asia. It runs along the edge of the data hall. On one side, the facilities team. Power, cooling, physical infrastructure, building management systems. On the other side, the compute. Se

The AI DC Is Not a Data Center with GPUs This article speaks most directly to design and construction specialists. The implications run through to operations teams. I want to say something directly to the design and construction professionals reading this. You are not doing anything wrong. Your methodology is sound. Your experience is real. The engineering discipline you have built over years of delivering precision facilities (power distribution, MEP design, structural engin

The Blind Spot the Industry Built Into Itself James Soh This article speaks most directly to C-level leadership and business planners. The implications run through to design and construction teams. Article 1 closed with a proposition. The machine is the building again. For those of us who have spent careers in the data center industry, that is not just a historical observation. It is a strategic reorientation. And it raises an immediate question for C-level leadership: does y