AI is rapidly redrawing Taiwan’s power map. Taipower projects more than 5GW of new demand from the semiconductor and AI value chain between 2026 and 2030 — roughly 1.85GW from AI and data centers and 3.24GW from semiconductors, more than double the average annual growth of the past decade. Taiwan’s data centers currently consume about 1.3–1.5GW, a figure expected to nearly double to 2.5–3GW by 2030.
Regulators are responding. In November 2025, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs brought new or expanded data centers above 5MW under energy-use review and capped hyperscale data center PUE at 1.3. Taipower also stopped accepting 5MW+ data center applications north of Taoyuan, steering new loads toward regions with spare grid capacity.
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