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StarMason Data Centre Campus

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

StarMason Data Centre Campus is a data center project in Thu Duc (SHTP), Vietnam, operated by StarMason JSC (Sembcorp Development / BB Holding JV). It is at the land and permitting stage. It is planned for 60 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 8 September 2026.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
60 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
StarMason JSC (Sembcorp Development / BB Holding JV)
Joint venture
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Open question2 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, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Sembcorp's own press release calls it a 'hyperscale- and AI-ready data centre campus' serving cloud, AI computing and advanced workloads; Uptime Tier III targeting Tier IV. No cooling spec or tenant, so 'likely'.

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

Stage history

2026-09-08Land and permitting · cafef.vn

Who is behind it

OperatorStarMason JSC (Sembcorp Development / BB Holding JV) · Joint venture
Funder, Joint venture partnerSembcorp Development
Funder, Joint venture partnerBB Holding

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-03. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Money at this site

Approved by a government investment agency, 2026-04US$480.26m

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

The figure covers the whole campus.

Land
Industrial estateSaigon Hi-Tech Park · 4.5 ha · Mar 2026 Reported source ↗
Investment approval; lease terms not disclosed
Allocated byHo Chi Minh City People's Committee (Saigon Hi-Tech Park) · 4.46 ha · leased · Sep 2026 Reported source ↗
Lot T9 in the Hi-Tech Park. Land use term runs to 24 Mar 2076.

Sources

  1. sembcorp.com
  2. en.sggp.org.vn
  3. datacenterdynamics.com
  4. theinvestor.vn
  5. tuoitre.vn
  6. Manh nha 'song' dau tu trung tam du lieu o Viet Nam (VnExpress, 2026-08-07)
  7. Starmason secures land lease for data centre at Saigon Hi-Tech Park (VIR, 2026-09-11)
  8. HCMC leases 4.5 ha for Sembcorp-backed Starmason hyperscale data center (The Investor, 2026-09-13)
  9. Liên doanh Việt Nam - Singapore vốn 50 tỷ thuê gần 4,5 ha làm siêu trung tâm dữ liệu hơn 12.500 tỷ (CafeF, 2026-09-11)
  10. TP.HCM cho Starmason thuê gần 4,5 ha đất để đầu tư trung tâm dữ liệu siêu lớn (Báo Đầu tư, 2026-09-09)
  11. Tiết lộ 'ông lớn' đứng sau dự án trung tâm dữ liệu 480 triệu USD tại TP.HCM (Người Quan Sát, 2026-09-16)
  12. SEMBCORP DEVELOPMENT SECURES INVESTMENT APPROVAL TO DEVELOP PROPOSED HYPERSCALE- AND AI-READY DATA CENTRE CAMPUS IN HO CHI MINH CITY (Sembcorp Industries, 2026-03-27)
  13. 'Ông lớn' nào đứng sau dự án trung tâm dữ liệu 480 triệu USD tại TP.HCM? (VietnamFinance, 2026-09-16)

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