Chunghwa Telecom Receives Frost & Sullivan's 2025 Taiwan Competitive Strategy Leadership Award for Excellence in Data Center Services

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Chunghwa Telecom (NYSE:CHT) has been awarded the 2025 Taiwan Competitive Strategy Leadership Award by Frost & Sullivan for excellence in data center services. The company is recognized for its strategic focus on delivering AI-ready data center solutions and infrastructure modernization.

Key highlights include the upcoming Taoyuan hyperscale facility with 12 megawatts of IT load capacity, and the Existing Building Retrofitting Project launched in 2024 to convert legacy sites into AI-ready data centers. The company's AI 2.0 strategic initiative focuses on upgrading IDC facilities across Taiwan while developing its own AI computing cloud platform.

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• Recognition as competitive strategy leader in Taiwan's data center services by Frost & Sullivan
• Development of new Taoyuan hyperscale facility with 12 megawatts of IT load capacity
• Strategic expansion into AI-ready data centers and computing cloud platform
• Successful implementation of legacy site modernization through Building Retrofitting Project
• Position as one of Taiwan's largest data center operators

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The company is recognized for driving AI-ready infrastructure, strategic innovation, and sustainable growth in Taiwan's fast-evolving data center market.

SAN ANTONIO, June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that Chunghwa Telecom has been recognized with the 2025 Taiwan Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in the data center services industry for its outstanding achievements in strategy development, infrastructure modernization, and customer-centric innovation. This recognition highlights Chunghwa Telecom's strategic focus on delivering scalable, sustainable, and AI-ready data center solutions tailored to the evolving demands of Taiwan's enterprise and hyperscaler clients.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. Chunghwa Telecom excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align strategic initiatives with market demand while executing them with consistency and scale. "Chunghwa Telecom demonstrates a strong focus on addressing emerging customer needs and transforming Taiwan's digital landscape by aligning its value propositions to address AI workloads' unique requirements in its existing and planned data center infrastructure facilities," said Nishchal Khorana, Associate Partner at Frost & Sullivan.

Guided by a long-term growth strategy centered on infrastructure innovation, customer alignment, and sustainability, Chunghwa Telecom has consistently shown agility with its dynamic digital ecosystem. Its ongoing investment in advanced infrastructure, such as high-density data centers and AI-specific service offerings, positions the company as a key enabler of Taiwan's digital economy. Notably, Chunghwa Telecom's upcoming Taoyuan hyperscale facility—designed to deliver 12 megawatts of IT load—will set a new standard in energy-efficient, high-capacity colocation for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

"Chunghwa Telecom, as part of its AI 2.0 strategic initiative, is accelerating the network resilience at sea, on land, on space and in the air this year. The company will upgrade relevant IDC facilities across Taiwan into AI-ready data centers (AI-DCs), while also developing its own AI computing cloud platform. In parallel, Chunghwa Telecom will leverage its AI capabilities to promote industry domain-specific AI applications.", said Ben-Yuan Chang, President of Enterprise Business Group at Chunghwa Telecom.

Chunghwa Telecom's commitment to customer-centricity is reflected in its proactive approach to infrastructure modernization. The company's Existing Building Retrofitting Project, launched in 2024, focuses on converting legacy sites into AI-ready data centers through enhanced power, cooling, and structural capabilities. These retrofitted facilities complement its new builds, contributing to its continuously expanding total IT load capacity and making Chunghwa Telecom one of Taiwan's largest data center operators.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Competitive Strategy Leadership Award to a company that demonstrates outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in competitive positioning. The award recognizes forward-thinking organizations that are reshaping their industries through innovation and growth excellence.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

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About Chunghwa Telecom
Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX 2412, NYSE: CHT) ("Chunghwa" or "the Company") is Taiwan's largest integrated telecommunications services company that provides fixed-line, mobile, broadband, and internet services. The Company also provides information and communication technology services to corporate customers with its big data, information security, cloud computing and IDC capabilities, and is expanding its business into innovative technology services such as IoT, AI, etc. Chunghwa has actively and continuously implemented environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives with the goal to achieve sustainability and has won numerous international and domestic awards and recognitions for its ESG commitments and best practices. For more information, please visit our website at www.cht.com.tw

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FAQ

What award did Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) receive from Frost & Sullivan in 2025?

Chunghwa Telecom received the 2025 Taiwan Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in the data center services industry for its achievements in strategy development, infrastructure modernization, and customer-centric innovation.

What is the capacity of CHT's new Taoyuan hyperscale facility?

The upcoming Taoyuan hyperscale facility is designed to deliver 12 megawatts of IT load, specifically designed for AI and high-performance computing applications.

What is Chunghwa Telecom's AI 2.0 strategic initiative?

The AI 2.0 initiative focuses on upgrading IDC facilities across Taiwan into AI-ready data centers, developing an AI computing cloud platform, and accelerating network resilience at sea, on land, in space and in the air.

When did Chunghwa Telecom launch its Existing Building Retrofitting Project?

Chunghwa Telecom launched the Existing Building Retrofitting Project in 2024 to convert legacy sites into AI-ready data centers through enhanced power, cooling, and structural capabilities.