Tsang also said that while the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks will review the use of its industrial estates and might revitalize them to support local data center development, the government will seriously consider the feasibility of building data centers in revitalized industrial buildings.

Existing industrial buildings might provide some data center space, but they aren't ideal for building tier 3 and 4 facilities, said Tam. "There is another problem with those industrial estates of the Science and Technology Parks--the organization considers co-location services a form of sub-letting that it bans on its properties."