Facility will be Viettel's largest to-date.
Viettel has begun construction on a new data center campus in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Announced by the company this week, this will be Viettel’s largest data center to-date, aiming to provide 140MW of capacity with approximately 10,000 racks. The facility will be roughly 40,000 sqm (430,555 sq ft) on a 4-hectare site.The facility is projected to become operational in 2026, and aims to be fully completed before 2030.
The facility will be located in Tan Phu Trung Industrial Park, Cu Chi district. The Park is located 25km from Ho Chi Minh City and 15km away from Tan Son Nhat International Airport.
Huyen Nguyen, deputy director of Viettel’s International Business Center, said on LinkedIn that the data center is “expected to achieve a PUE of less than 1.4”. The facility is also expected to adhere to Uptime Tier III standards.
Viette currently operates 15 data centers across Vietnam with a combined capacity of 87MW. The state-owned telecommunications company has previously stated its intention to build 24 data centers by 2030 with a combined capacity of 560MW.
As reported by Vietnam News, Tào Đức Thắng, chairman and general director of Viettel Group, said: “The mega-scale data center in Tân Phú Trung is not an isolated project. It is a strategically important component in the overall digital infrastructure that Viettel is building."
Vietnam recently relaxed its laws regarding foreign ownership of data centers, removing the 49 percent foreign ownership cap.
Viettel Group ('Military Telecommunications & Industry Corporation') was founded in the late 1980s as a construction firm. The telecoms company is owned by the state and operated by the Vietnamese Ministry of Defence. Founded in 2008, its Viettel IDC data center unit offers colocation and cloud services from five data centers across Hanoi (x2), Da Nang (x1), and Ho Chi Minh City (x2), totaling 25,000 sqm (269,100 sq ft).
