The Vietnam government has granted approval for National Data Centre project that aims to build data centres for storing government data.
The government will operate the national centre to integrate, synchronise, store, share, analyse and coordinate data from various state agencies.
It will establish two data warehouses, one to focus on people and the other for gathering data from national databases.
The government said these data will be used for providing data-related services, supporting policy making, creating development, building digital government, digital society and digital economy.
The first National Data Centre (NDC1) is planned at Hoa Lac High-Tech Park, Hanoi City and the location for two other data centres are yet to be determined.
It is expected that the NDC1 will cover about 150,000 square metres with one data centre of 1,000 racks and the other containing 300 racks, and then auxiliary buildings catering to around 1,000 workers.
The government said the entire project construction is likely to be completed by 2025, and it will then deploy in-depth data analysis from 2026 to support in developing policy mechanisms and national development strategy.
While the government eyes state budget as primary source for funds, it is also inviting private investments.
By 2030, it hopes that over 90 percent of administrative activities of exchanging and coordinating information provision between state agencies will be replaced by sharing digital data from aggregated data warehouses in the NDC.
Last year, Vietnam introduced new data localisation regulation that requires domestic and certain foreign companies to store personal data of Vietnamese clients locally.
The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) also has recently launched its largest data centre in Hanoi spanning across 23,000 square metres containing 2,000 racks.
With equipment from G7 manufacturers, it claimed to offer speeds up to 2Gbps per rack for domestic connections and 0.5Gbps per rack for international connections.
