FPT Corporation inaugurates its fourth data center in Vietnam

By Bach Quang
Thu, August 21, 2025 | 9:45 am GMT+7

FPT Corporation on Wednesday put into operation its FPT Fornix HCM02 Data Center in the Ho Chi Minh City-based Saigon High-Tech Park, which has the largest number of racks in Vietnam to date.

The debut of FPT Fornix HCM02 Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, August 20, 2025.

The debut of FPT Fornix HCM02 Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City, August 20, 2025.

The data center includes eight floors, covers 10,000 square meters, and has a capacity of 3,600 racks.

A rack is a specialized, standardized metal structure designed to hold and organize servers, network equipment, and other IT hardware. It provides a secure, efficient, and organized environment for managing data center components.

FPT Fornix HCM02 is developed according to the Carrier Neutral model, allowing customers to proactively choose and connect to many telecommunications service providers.

"This model brings flexibility in connection, optimizes costs, enhances redundancy, improves operational efficiency, and especially creates an open digital ecosystem, contributing to ensuring sovereignty and safety of the national digital infrastructure," said Tran Hai Duong, chairman and general director of FPT Telecom International, a unit of FPT Corporation.

Up to now, FPT owns four large data centers, including FPT Fornix HN01 and FPT Fornix HN02 in Hanoi and FPT Fornix HCM01 and FPT Fornix HCM02 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The four centers covers a total area of over 17,000 sqm and has a capacity of over 7,000 racks. This ecosystem is an important platform to promote digital transformation for thousands of leading organizations and enterprises at home and abroad.

Another technology heavyweight, military-run Viettel, on Tuesday broke ground on the An Khanh Data Center in Hanoi, with an investment of VND17.5 trillion ($664.9 million).

The center, located on a 1.9 hectare site in An Khanh commune, will offer a designed capacity of 60 MW, making it the largest data center in northern Vietnam. Phase 1 is set to go live in Q2/2026, with plans to expand it into Viettel’s second hyperscale data center by 2030.

Previously, on April 23, Viettel broke ground on a state-of-the-art data center in HCMC. The project set to become one of the largest in Southeast Asia and the first in Vietnam to have such a hyperscale capacity.

The High-Tech Data Center and R&D Complex will span nearly four hectares in the Tan Phu Trung Industrial Park in Cu Chi district and is designed with a total power capacity of up to 140 megawatts, housing approximately 10,000 server racks. It will be built and operated according to Uptime Institute’s tier III international standards.

The facility will offer an average rack power density of 10 kW - 2.5 times higher than the national average - with peak capacity reaching 60 kW per rack. This high-performance setup is engineered to meet the computational demands of large-scale AI models and applications.

According to the company leader, the new center will form a key part of Viettel’s broader digital infrastructure network, which already includes 15 data centers across Hanoi, Danang, Ho Chi Minh City, and Binh Duong.

The first phase is expected to go live in the first quarter of 2026, with full completion slated before 2030.

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