(Construction) - Japanese telecommunications company NTT and its subsidiary NTT Global Data Center will build a data center in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam.
The companies will expand the investment in response to the accelerating trend toward digital transformation. A new company will be established with a local IT company in April to construct and operate the data center. Construction will begin in 2022 with an aim to open the facility 2024.
Japan’s NTT to build Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City. |
In Vietnam, the need for data centers has been increasing due to the growing demand for cloud services and the growing use of electronic money as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and. Ho Chi Minh City is the country's economic center, and many multinational companies have established bases there.
The new facility will be called Ho Chi Minh 1 Data Center. It will be built in Saigon Hi-Tech Park, 15 kilometers from the center of Ho Chi Minh City. The building will have five floors. A total of 6 megawatts of power will be supplied to a 3,100 square meter server room. Utilizing NTT's facility design capacity, the facility will be equipped with disaster countermeasures and full security. NTT operates data center businesses in more than 20 countries and regions around the world. This will be the second facility operated in Vietnam, following the once in the capital city of Hanoi. (2022/03/31)
The Daily Engineering and Construction News of Japan
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