AIS Business and Huawei Cloud have signed an MoU to accelerate Thailand’s industrial sector towards smart manufacturing using private 5G, cloud and AI-powered data solutions. Under the MoU signed on Monday, AIS and Huawei Cloud agreed to jointly develop end-to-end digital infrastructure for factories capable of connecting data generated by machinery and production systems within factories via private 5G networks, fibre networks and secure connectivity solutions. The digital infrastructure will also be designed to leverage GPU computing capabilities to collect, process and analyse data in the cloud. “This transformation requires a digital infrastructure that can securely and reliably connect network, cloud, data and AI with factory systems, while supporting future growth.” According to World Bank data, Thailand’s industrial sector accounted for around 25% of GDP in 2024 and represented 16% of total employment, or more than 6.2 million jobs.