On Wednesday, the SAR's Chief Executive Donald Tsang said the first site of the reserved land is expected to be put up for open auction in 2013 at the earliest during his last Policy Address speech at the Legislative Council.

Legislative Councilor Samson Tam (IT Constituency) believes the government's measure is a good start, but said two hectares aren't enough. "We need 20 hectares of land to meet the demand for the next five to eight years--this was what I recommended to the Chief Executive last month," said Tam. "That size will allow the building of about 10 large data centers--you can only build two data centers at most on two hectares of land."