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Viettel Tan Phu Trung Data Center & High-Tech R&D Complex

Cu Chi, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · HCMC metro market · location approximate to district level

Viettel Tan Phu Trung Data Center & High-Tech R&D Complex is a data center project in Cu Chi, Vietnam, operated by Viettel IDC (Viettel Group). It is under construction. It is planned for about 100 MW of IT load, a figure ArusGrid derived from a published total.

Latest change on record: moved to under construction on 23 April 2025.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
100 MW
Derived by ArusGrid
Running now
Not disclosed
Operator
Viettel IDC (Viettel Group)
Telco
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Strong6 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed○ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Tenant or own use.

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

Marketed by Viettel as Vietnam's first hyperscale (>100MW) DC, designed for AI workloads and high-performance chips; PUE <1.4 target. Viettel has a standing Nvidia relationship (the Dec 2024 Vietnam-Nvidia agreement explicitly covers expansion of a Viettel AI data centre). No dated source for liquid cooling or actual GPU deployment at THIS site, so 'likely' not 'confirmed'.

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 · Under constructionSize not published, target 2026
Full build · Announced140 MW, target 2030

Stage history

2023-05Land and permitting · en.sggp.org.vn
2025-04-23Under construction · viettimes.vn

Who is behind it

OperatorViettel IDC (Viettel Group) · Telco
Funder, EquityViettel Group

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-01. 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

Announced investment, 2024-10VND 14,700bn (about US$579m)

Platform deals that include it

Nvidia-Vietnam government agreement (AI R&D centre + AI data centre)
Country programme, 2024-12
Not disclosed
Viettel 5x AI Factory data centre programme 2026-2030
Country programme, 2026-04
Not disclosed

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

Project team
Construction supervisorCONINCO · Apr 2025 Confirmed source ↗
Construction supervision
Piling and earthworksVietnam Construction and Import-Export JSC (Vinaconex) · Apr 2025 Confirmed source ↗
Piling foundation and underground works package
Land
Industrial estateTân Phú Trung Industrial Park (operator not named) · 4 ha · Apr 2025 Reported source ↗
'nearly 4 hectares' in Tân Phú Trung IP, Củ Chi; allocation/lease terms not stated
Power supply
Grid supplyEVNHCMC · Sep 2026 Reported source ↗
Tariff dispute over commercial versus production rate; the utility has warned it may cut or reduce supply to data centres that do not pay
Water and cooling
CoolingWater-cooled chillers · design PUE 1.4 Reported source ↗
Chilled water with magnetic-bearing chillers, rear-door heat exchangers, immersion-ready
Coolingdesign PUE <1.4 Reported source ↗
Target PUE below 1.4 at design. Site of nearly 4 hectares for about 10,000 racks, Uptime Tier III design.

Sources

  1. datacenterdynamics.com
  2. tuoitre.vn
  3. theinvestor.vn
  4. baodautu.vn
  5. znews.vn
  6. Bước ngoặt hạ tầng số Việt Nam: Viettel khởi công dự án tầm cỡ tại Củ Chi, TP. Hồ Chí Minh (Doanh nghiệp Hội nhập, 2025-04-24)
  7. Viettel khởi công trung tâm dữ liệu lớn bậc nhất Đông Nam Á (VietTimes, 2025-04-23)
  8. VINACONEX Partners with Viettel on Vietnam's Largest Data Center (Vinaconex, 2025-04-24)
  9. HCMC launches new investment project in Tan Phu Trung Industrial Park (SGGP English Edition, 2023-05-19)

Same campus, Tan Phu Trung IP (Cu Chi)

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