Countries / Asia-Pacific and Middle East

Brunei

Name: Brunei
Address: BN

Brunei enacted a Personal Data Protection Order in January 2025, with its main obligations starting on 1 January 2026, and has a Digital Economy Masterplan 2025.

The Personal Data Protection Order 2025 was enacted on 8 January 2025 and its substantive provisions commence on 1 January 2026. It applies to private sector organisations, and transfers abroad need a standard of protection comparable to the Order. AITI is expected to act as the responsible authority. The Order is described by Asia News Network as a core pillar of the Digital Economy Masterplan 2025. We found no data centre or compute programme.

AI policy and activity

No AI law was found. The pages read give no specifics on AI policy.

Power and grid

No data centre or grid information for Brunei was found in the pages read.

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Personal Data Protection Order 2025 Read the cited source	Law	In force from 1 January 2026	Reported. DLA Piper summary: enacted 8 January 2025, substantive provisions from 1 January 2026, applies to the private sector and excludes government agencies, with a transfer rule requiring a comparable standard of protection. It describes AITI as anticipated to be designated the responsible authority. We did not read the Order.
Digital Economy Masterplan 2025 Read the cited source	Policy	Stated	Reported. Asia News Network names the Masterplan as the framework for which the Order is a core pillar and describes AITI training programmes and a January 2026 data protection conference. The article does not discuss data centres or AI policy. We did not find the Masterplan document.

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 If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.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). Brunei: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/brunei

BibTeX

@misc{computefinder_countries_brunei,
  title        = {Brunei: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0098}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0098},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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