Alphabet's Google is planning to build a large data centre in Vietnam, according to sources by Reuters. This initiative would be the first investment of its kind in the Southeast Asian nation by a U.S tech giant.

Google is weighing setting up a "hyperscale" data centre close to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's southern economic hub, the source said, declining to be named because the information was not public.
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The investment, the size of which the source did not specify, would be a shot in the arm for Vietnam, which has so far failed to attract major overseas capital in data centres due to its patchy infrastructure, with large tech companies preferring to house their centres in rival nations in the region.

It was not clear how quickly Google would reach a decision on an investment, but the source said internal talks were taking place and the data centre could be ready in 2027. A spokesperson for Google declined to comment about the data centre plan.