Singapore’s digital infrastructure bill leaves cross-border data to contract

But it has nothing to say about the data itself once it leaves the country. The city-state froze new datacentre builds in 2019 over land, power and water constraints, and while the moratorium was lifted in 2022, capacity has been handed out in tranches ever since. Companies that could not get what they needed at home went to Johor, across the Causeway, and to Batam.