Alibaba to build Vietnam data center to follow local storage law

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Alibaba plans to build a data center in Vietnam to store data locally in compliance with legal requirements, while it currently relies on government-owned facilities.

The Chinese tech group told Nikkei Asia that for now it rents space for computer servers from telecommunications companies Viettel and VNPT, providing one example of how companies have responded since a contentious law took effect in 2022. Google, Amazon and others fought hard against Vietnam's plan to force them to keep data in the country, but the policy ultimately went through towards the end of that year.