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CMC Hyperscale DC SHTP

Thu Duc (SHTP), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · HCMC metro market · location approximate to district level

CMC Hyperscale DC SHTP is a data center project in Thu Duc (SHTP), Vietnam, operated by CMC AI Digital Infrastructure (CMC Corporation). It is at the land and permitting stage. It is planned for 30 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting in July 2025.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
30 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
CMC AI Digital Infrastructure (CMC Corporation)
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Leaning yes4 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured○ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Power arranged.

Your call. Will it be built?

Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.

How Vietnam approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in Vietnam.

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. On record: named funder, committed or approved capital, dated, sized phase, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Stated AI purpose (marketed as HCMC's 'AI heart'; AI-as-a-Service / GPU-cloud positioning). CMC already runs a GPU farm of 1,000+ Nvidia GH200 units (company PR, Jul 2025), though at its existing sites. >=100MW modern greenfield.

Access to AI chips

GradeNo public signal

Nothing found in the public record. This describes the record, not the company, and it is not evidence that access was sought or denied. Criteria.

Licence required as enforced (Country Group D:1), no named authorisation found · Licence required as enforced (Country Group D:1), no named authorisation found (2026-09-27) source

Phases

Phase 1 · Land and permitting30 MW, target 2027
Full build · Announced120 MW

Stage history

2025-07Land and permitting · tuoitre.vn

Who is behind it

OperatorCMC AI Digital Infrastructure (CMC Corporation) · Colocation
Funder, EquityCMC Corporation
Funder, Joint venture partnerSamsung C&T

Who uses the compute

Own use · enterpriseCMC Corporation · reported, unconfirmed

CMC's own AI ecosystem, including a GPU farm of over 1,000 Nvidia GH200 units, alongside AI as a service, cloud, big data and security services · as of 2025-07-13

VietTimes reports CMC's plan for the SHTP hyperscale centre to host CMC's own ecosystem, including a GPU farm of over 1,000 Nvidia GH200 units. This is a stated plan, not a signed tenant.

Source · Chiến lược của CMC khi xây dựng trung tâm dữ liệu hyperscale 250 triệu USD (VietTimes, 2025-07-13)

Checked on 2026-10-01. No document names a confirmed user beyond the rows above.

Money at this site

Approved by a government investment agency, 2025-06US$250m

An approval figure is an incentive ceiling. It often covers a first phase and can exclude land or IT equipment.

Platform deals that include it

CMC - Samsung C&T hyperscale DC programme
Platform capital, 2025-08
US$1.0bn

Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.

Land
Industrial estateSaigon Hi-Tech Park · 3 ha · Jul 2024 Reported source ↗
Site of more than 3 ha in the Hi-Tech Park, Tang Nhon Phu ward. Terms not disclosed.
Industrial estateSaigon Hi-Tech Park · leased · Jul 2025 Reported source ↗
Project term is 50 years from the land allocation or land lease decision. Site is Lot T4-3 on D2 Road in SHTP, Tang Nhon Phu ward.

Sources

  1. cmc.com.vn
  2. vir.com.vn
  3. vietnamnet.vn
  4. datacenterdynamics.com
  5. CMC va Samsung C&T ky MOU phat trien trung tam du lieu 1 ty USD (VietnamNet, 2025-08-12)
  6. TP. Hồ Chí Minh thành lập Tổ công tác hỗ trợ dự án Siêu Trung tâm dữ liệu (VnEconomy, 2025-11-25)
  7. CMC được chấp thuận là nhà đầu tư trung tâm dữ liệu 6.260 tỷ đồng tại TP.HCM (Bao Dau Tu, 2025-07-08)
  8. CMC Approved for Over USD 250 Million Investment to Build the Foundation of Vietnam's "AI Heart" (CMC Corporation, 2025-07-14)
  9. CMC opens design consulting tender for hyperscale data center project in Ho Chi Minh City (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-03-10)
  10. Billion-dollar capital seeks new opportunities in data centre real estate (Viet Nam News, 2026-01-17)
  11. TPHCM sẽ có trung tâm dữ liệu hơn 250 triệu đô la Mỹ (The Saigon Times, 2025-07-14)
  12. CMC đề xuất 3 sáng kiến nhằm thúc đẩy phát triển công nghệ vùng Đông Nam Bộ (VnEconomy, 2025-10-29)
  13. Công ty cổ phần tập đoàn công nghệ CMC thông báo mời thầu (Báo Đấu thầu, 2025-11-28)
  14. Chiến lược của CMC khi xây dựng trung tâm dữ liệu hyperscale 250 triệu USD (VietTimes, 2025-07-13)
  15. Billion-dollar capital seeks new opportunities in data centre real estate (VietNamNet, 2026-01-19)

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