Dao Quang Vinh, Huawei Vietnam Solution Director has said it is possible that Vietnam will be the next country in Southeast Asia to host a Huawei data centre, but has given no firm commitment. He told the New Horizon Business Summit 2024 earlier this month that the Chinese tech giant was still waiting for demand to reach a critical mass, according to VN Economy.

Data centres in Vietnam are becoming more and more common. This is a result of a broader move to digitise the economy as well as several key regulations that require businesses to store the data of Vietnamese users in Vietnam. That said, there are a number of challenges for the sector, not least of which is Vietnam’s somewhat inconsistent electricity supply.

The Huawei executive may not have touched on this according to the linked article from VN Economy above, however, this should be a key concern for data centre developers with their operations demanding huge amounts of electricity.

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