“Indonesian governor orders halt on data centre project by Singapore's BDx due to lack of permits”, 30 September 2026

A governor of Indonesia's most populous province has ordered Singapore's BDx Data Centers to halt construction on ​a data centre due to a lack of required permits, ‌amid a push by Southeast Asia's largest economy to catch up with regional peers in technology infrastructure projects.

• BDx, which runs data centres for cloud companies and other large ​businesses across Asia, said it broke ground on a 640-megawatt artificial ​intelligence (AI) data-centre campus in Jatiluhur in West Java on September ⁠22.
• In a video of a meeting posted to Instagram on Wednesday, Governor ​Dedi Mulyadi of West Java told BDx representatives that construction work had ​to stop until required permits were obtained and the project's environmental impact assessment process was completed.
• BDx said the company is still confirming the details.
• "The project is being halted not ​because it violates environmental rules. It's being halted because the permits have ​not yet been issued," Dedi said in a separate video that was posted on ‌YouTube ⁠on Tuesday.
• Dedi said he supported investment in West Java provided projects were environmentally friendly, while noting concerns that some data centres have been associated with water shortages.
• Around the world there have been moves to freeze, restrict or ban ​new data-centre construction, as ​concerns mount over ⁠electricity costs, strained water supplies, land scarcity and the burden on local communities …