HANOI: Abu Dhabi-based technology group G42, and a consortium comprising the FPT Corporation and the Viet Thai Group, have signed a deal to develop sovereign AI capabilities and cloud infrastructure across Vietnam, G42 said on Monday (Feb 9).
Under the framework cooperation agreement backed by a commitment of US$1 billion, the firms will deploy cloud capacity across three data centre locations in the South-East Asian country, it said in a statement.
"The initiative aims to support Vietnam's ambition to become an AI-native society and a leading AI hub in South-East Asia, while ensuring national data sovereignty and digital resilience," G42 said.
Vietnamese state media said last year the firms planned to develop a $2 billion hyperscale data centre in Vietnam's business hub Ho Chi Minh City. - Reuters
