Monitor Hi-Tech in East Asia (3/2025). Many Asian hi-tech companies shared their plans to build data centers at Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona. A number of previously announced investments, also from other sectors, are entering the implementation stage. Many of them in the countries of the "global south", such as India or Brazil, or in the countries of origin of the companies. Cooperation with American companies in the AI and semiconductor sectors is continued by companies from South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. Many Chinese companies, due to, among others, American tariffs, are turning to domestic components or are starting to produce their own. Both technology giants and startups throughout the region are focusing on research and implementation of artificial intelligence. Download the entire March compilation with commentary here.