The Asia Pacific (APAC) region’s data centre landscape is currently experiencing robust growth, fuelled by a rising demand for cloud computing, big data, and e-commerce. However, the last few years have seen the emergence of the tier 2 markets in APAC as highly desirable locations for data centre development as Cloud service providers look to open dedicated Cloud regions in these markets, rather than servicing them from key hubs such as Singapore and Tokyo. Within these markets, the Southeast Asia 5 (SEA-5) of Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam have attracted particular amounts of interest, given the large population sizes and lack of development so far