Data-center law in Taiwan

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-22

Taiwan has not enacted a data-center-specific siting, permitting, energy-grid, water-allocation, or incentive statute; a data center sited in Taiwan is reached, if at all, by the same general development-review law that reaches any comparable industrial facility.

The Environmental Impact Assessment Act requires an environmental impact assessment for, among eleven listed categories of development activity, the establishment of a factory or the development of an industrial park, with the specific triggering thresholds for that category set by the central competent authority rather than stated in the Act itself.

Instruments on record

1 instrument on record, grouped by the family of approval each one governs.

Environmental review

What impact review must precede approval, and who leads it?

Environmental Impact Assessment Act, factory and industrial-park development review

In force

Environmental Impact Assessment Act (環境影響評估法), Arts. 5, 7, 22

Applies to both

Article 5 requires an environmental impact assessment for eleven listed categories of development activity considered to have a potential adverse environmental impact, including "the establishment of a factory or the development of an industrial park" (subparagraph 1); the specific determination standards, triggering thresholds, and working standards for each category are set separately by the central competent authority rather than stated in this Act.

A data center meeting whatever threshold has been set for that category would need to complete the assessment and receive authorization before proceeding; a developer who begins a listed development activity before receiving that authorization is fined NT$300,000 to NT$1,500,000 and the competent authority notifies the industry competent authority to order suspension (Article 22).

No dedicated data-center siting, energy-grid capacity-reservation, water-allocation, or tax or financial incentive statute was located in the primary sources checked; those questions, where Taiwan law reaches them at all, rest with general land-use, energy, and water law rather than with an instrument addressed to a data center as such.

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