Electricity demand from AI data centers and other high-tech industries is pushing governments and large cloud service providers to focus more on grid stability and backup supply. In Taiwan, amendments to the Energy Management Act marked the first major overhaul in nearly 10 years and added requirements that could reshape how enterprises plan new plants, expansions, and power infrastructure.

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have rejected a proposal to prepay KRW25 trillion (approx. US$18.7 billion) in electricity bills, highlighting the financing challenge facing South Korea as it accelerates semiconductor expansion and the power infrastructure needed to support it.

Taiwan’s government has limited budgets to build the AI computing infrastructure the country needs, and infrastructure that a government runs itself cannot easily turn a profit. To get around that constraint, the Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) introduced the AI computing center BOO (build-operate-own) public-private partnership project in April 2026, aiming to let private companies build and operate the infrastructure while tax incentives make the investment attractive to them.