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Sri Lanka

Name: Sri Lanka
Address: LK

Sri Lanka has a data protection act with a data-localisation default for public bodies, and is seeking hyperscaler and AI data centres for a sovereign government cloud.

The Personal Data Protection Act No. 9 of 2022 has a staggered commencement, and a February 2025 Cabinet decision moved one enforcement date by six months to 18 September 2025 (Reported). The Ministry of Digital Economy and GovTech issued a GovCloud 3.0 request for information on a sovereign hyperscaler and AI cloud using two to three in-country Tier III+ data centres (Primary). A Sunday Times report of 24 May 2026 says the Board of Investment is assessing over 20 responses and that a power cost subsidy budget exists (Reported).

AI policy and activity

Policy is investment-led: attract hyperscale and AI data centres, backed by a sovereign government cloud. A January 2026 civil-society policy note warns of water, electricity and land constraints. We found no adopted national AI law.

Power and grid

No named facility was found in a source read, so data_centres is empty. Reported: the Centre for a Smart Future policy note of 14 January 2026 (https://www.csf-asia.org/resource-reality-check-for-sri-lankas-ai-data-centre-ambition/) argues AI data centres must be weighed against water, electricity and land constraints, but the page read gives no grid figures. No Ceylon Electricity Board document was read.

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
GovCloud 3.0 request for information: sovereign hyperscaler and AI cloud platform Read the cited source	Programme	Consultation from 8 May 2026	Primary. World Bank event page listing the Ministry of Digital Economy and GovTech Sri Lanka RFI: 2 to 3 in-country Tier III+ data centres with multiple hyperscale providers deploying modular cloud and AI stacks. The date is the listed event date. We could not read the RFI PDF.
Data centre electricity subsidy budget Read the cited source	Tax or incentive	Proposed	Reported. Sunday Times, 24 May 2026, quoting the Deputy Minister of Digital Economy: a budget is allocated to subsidise electricity to a benchmark cost level if needed, with the Board of Investment assessing over 20 RFI responses. No scheme text found.

Checked on 3 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 3). Sri Lanka: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/sri-lanka

BibTeX

@misc{computefinder_countries_sri_lanka,
  title        = {Sri Lanka: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0056}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0056},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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