Data Centre Magazine February 2023 | Page 137

HONG KONG
VIETNAM
TOP 10

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HONG KONG

NUMBER OF DATA CENTRES : 116

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VIETNAM

NUMBER OF DATA CENTRES : 24
Thanks to growing demand amongst Vietnamese companies for cloud services , Vietnam is experiencing a booming digital economy , further fuelled by an impressively high rate of digital literacy amongst its population . As a result , it ’ s projected that , by 2025 , the Vietnamese data centre market will reach $ 1.6bn .
The country ’ s data centre industry is predominantly concentrated in Ho Chi Minh City , Da Nang and its capital city , Hanoi , with major operators including FPT Corporation , KDDI and Viettel .
Alongside the data centre boom currently underway in China , Hong Kong is also piggybacking off this vast , mature market .
Increasingly , Hong Kong is garnering the interest of data centre operators in mainland China , who are using Hong Kong ’ s prime location to bolster their plans of growth across the rest of the APAC region .
Currently , the areas of Kwai Chung , Tsuen Wan and Tseung Kwan O are experiencing the most significant increase in data centre numbers .
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