Singaporean technology company Sea Ltd. launched a cloud-focused business unit called Sea Cloud, chief executive Forrest Li told staff in an email filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in October 2026. The new unit will offer cloud AI services to enterprises globally, drawing on a platform Sea has run internally for more than ten years to support its gaming, e-commerce and digital financial services operations.

Li wrote that the platform powers Garena, Shopee and Monee at a level of cost and reliability the company could not have bought from an external provider. Around 500 employees spent the past two years rebuilding the infrastructure to support AI applications across Sea's businesses, he said. Taking an AI project from concept to production inside the company is now dramatically faster than it was two years ago, according to the email.

Sea first went public on 20 October 2017. Since then, quarterly active users grew almost ten times, from 69 million to 666 million, Li said. Shopee's quarterly gross merchandise value grew 35 times, from $1.1 billion to $38.3 billion. Quarterly revenue grew more than 80 times, from $94 million to $7.8 billion.

Following publication of the SEC filing, Sea Ltd.'s stock dropped from $88.67 to $82.06. The stock was trading at around $77.81 at the time of the Data Center Dynamics report.

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Sea's most recent annual report states that the servers the company uses are hosted in leased data centres across its markets, as well as on cloud services. The data centres in its network are owned and maintained by major domestic and international providers, the report said. Sea generally enters into leasing and hosting service agreements with renewal terms, though the report did not name specific providers or locations.

The company operates private data centres and cloud services linked by high-speed networks, according to the annual report. Sea has established local servers and infrastructure in many key markets to ensure faster connections and a seamless user experience. The technology architecture has been designed to scale to accommodate large amounts of data as the user base grows and engagement increases, the company said.