SÃO PAULO , BRAZIL
HANOI , VIETNAM
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SÃO PAULO , BRAZIL
No . of Data Centres : 27 New Projects in 2020 : 4 Major Operators : Ascenty , Equinix , Scala Data Centers
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HANOI , VIETNAM
No . of Data Centres : 11 Vietnamese Data Centre Market ( 2025 ): $ 1.6bn Major Operators : FPT Corporation , KDDI , Viettel
Vietnam ’ s digital economy is booming , thanks to strong consumer adoption of electronics and a high rate of digital literacy . There is also growing interest and demand from Vietnamese companies for cloud services . The country ’ s data centre industry is concentrated in Ho Chi Minh City to the South , Da Nang in the middle , and the capital of Hanoi in the north . So far , colocation infrastructure in Hanoi remains underdeveloped for a city of its size , although this is set to change in the near future .
Another market in possession of a booming population and a lack of digital infrastructure , São Paulo is Brazil ’ s biggest data centre market . Digital Realty alone operates 13 sites in the city . Brazil itself is the top data centre market in Latin America , with roughly 17 companies operating more than 44 colocation facilities in the country . That number rises significantly if you also count the number of sites operated by telecom carriers . São Paulo received more than $ 295mn of data centre investment last year , and is on track to host an AWS cloud region within the city . datacentremagazine . com 155