SINGAPORE—Facebook Inc. said Thursday it would invest more than $1 billion in a new data center in Singapore, its first in Asia and a win for the city-state as other jurisdictions such as China tighten controls over where user data is stored.
The social-media giant is facing pressure globally to remove offensive and inflammatory content, a development that has emboldened countries including China, India and Vietnam to compel technology companies to store user data in the country of origin. That has raised concerns about privacy...