As AI infrastructure continues to reshape global supply chains, the Open Compute Project OCP APAC Summit held in Taipei on August 5, 2025 , highlighted the Asia-Pacific regions expanding role in the development and deployment of open hardware technologies. Speakers from the OCP Foundation and Taiwans tech industry emphasized the regions growing contributions to AI data center infrastructure and its significance in future technology roadmaps.
Cliff Grossner , Chief Innovation Officer at the OCP Foundation, opened the summit by calling APAC an extremely vibrant community, noting that participation from the regions corporate members has reached record levels. Thirty percent of our corporate members now come from APAC, he said, highlighting that the region accounts for nearly 40 of OCP-certified data center-ready facilities and 28 of its experience centers.
APAC emerges as OCPs growth engine