Circular No. 23/2022/TT-BTTTT dated November 30th, 2022 of the Minister of Information and Communications on amendments to Circular No. 03/2013/TT-BTTTT dated January 22, 2013 of the Minister of Information and Communications on Technical Regulations and Standards to Data Centers

This Circular amends, supplements some provisions of Circular No. 03/2013/TT-BTTTT pertaining to the application of technical regulations and standards upon designing data centers in order to provide data center services.

Notably, according to the amendments at this Circular, the signing, building of data centers must apply the following technical regulations and standards:

1. National technical regulation TCVN 9250:2021 (or ANSI/TIA-942- B:2017), Tier standards of Uptime Institute;

2. National Technical Regulations QCVN 32:2020/BTTTT on lightning protection for telecommunication stations and outside cable network;

3. National Technical Regulations QCVN 9:2016/BTTTT on earthing for telecommunications stations;

4. National Technical Regulations QCVN 06:2021/BXD on fire safety for buildings and structures.

Agencies and enterprises shall declare compliance of data centers with technical regulations and standards before introducing the data centers into use and providing data center services; report to the Ministry of Information and Communications (via the Vietnam Telecommunication Agency) when changes of data centers lead to deviation from previously declared details.

Declaration of conformity form of data centers shall apply according to the new form at Appendix I of this Circular (replacing Appendix I of Circular No. 03/2013/TT-BTTTT ).

This Circular takes effect from February 1st, 2023.