In the past year, tech behemonths like Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet and Amazon injected more than 200 billion USD into data centres and AI-related tool development, with a substantial portion flowing into Asia.

However, most Asian data centres have not been equipped to host AI servers, presenting a significant opportunity for upgrading existing facilities and building new AI-capable data centres with better capacity across Asia.

In Vietnam, local tech companies, including VNPT, Viettel, CMC, FPT and VNG, are expanding their data centres' capacity.

Experts estimated that to serve the market of 100 million people in Vietnam with sufficient future technological services like AI, generative AI, and AI cloud computing, the size of domestic data centres must increase 15-fold.

International giants are also entering the Vietnamese market, with planned investments worth billions of USD, intensifying the competition in the sector.

Vietnam is poised to welcome a wave of AI-integrated data centre construction, primarily driven by foreign giants. To fully capitalise on this opportunity, experts said the country must rapidly improve its power supply capabilities, land availability, human resources, and regulatory framework./.