The Government is drafting a Decree to amend some articles of Decree 72/2013 on administrating, providing and using Internet services and online information (Draft Decree). The Draft Decree proposes several major changes of Decree 72, one of which is the expansion of the governing scope of Decree 72 to cover the service of information data center (dịch vụ trung tâm dữ liệu). Previously, there is no set of regulations governing this service.

Various new provisions on information data center service are included in the Draft Decree. For instance:

1. Certain definitions relating to information data center service are introduced, e.g.:

(a) Service of information data center (kinh doanh dịch vụ trung tâm dữ liệu) which is defined as a commercial activity to provide computing and storage capacity for technical infrastructure conducted by data centers, including: server rental services (dịch vụ cho thuê máy chủ), service of renting out data center’s space (dịch vụ cho thuê chỗ tại trung tâm dữ liệu), service of renting out data storage space (dịch vụ cho thuê chỗ lưu trữ dữ liệu), and cloud computing service (dịch vụ điện toán đám mây);