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Alibaba Launches Data Center in Seoul, South Korea

Mar 31, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Alibaba Cloud has announced the opening of a new data center in Seoul, South Korea. The company first revealed plans for a South Korean cloud region last year. It currently operates 82 Availability Zones and 26 regions across the globe. Alibaba’s head of Cloud Intelligence for Japan and Korea, Unique Song, said in a press conference that Alibaba had opened a new data center in Korea to meet the increasing demand for digital transformation and services in the region. 

Alibaba Cloud’s Korea lead, Stone Nee, noted that the company would train 2,000 IT experts in Korea to help customers achieve their needs seamlessly. There have been activities in South Korea from different companies in recent times. Microsoft opened two regions in South Korea in 2017. AWS also launched a region in Seoul a year before Microsoft. In addition, Google opened a South Korean region in 2020.


There are 82 data centers in Seoul.

Rendering of ESR Group's KR1 data center in Bupyeong District
Posted in ESR Group: Bupyeong KR1 Source: ESR Group
Rendering of IGIS Asset Management's Choji-dong Data Center in South Korea
Posted in IGIS AMC: Choji-dong Source: IGIS Asset Management
Rendering of CapitaLand's Korea Data Center 1 in South Korea
Posted in CapitaLand: Korea 1 Source: CapitaLand
Rendering of CapitaLand's Korea Data Center 2 in South Korea
Posted in CapitaLand: Korea 2 Source: CapitaLand
Rendering of KINX's Pyeongchon IDC in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Posted in KINX: Pyeongchon IDC Source: KINX
KINX's Bundang2 IDC in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Posted in KINX: Bundang2 IDC Source: KINX
KINX's Bundang1 IDC in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Posted in KINX: Bundang1 IDC Source: KINX
KINX's Sangam2 IDC in Seoul, South Korea
Posted in KINX: Sangam2 IDC Source: KINX
KINX's Sangam1 IDC in Seoul, South Korea
Posted in KINX: Sangam1 IDC Source: KINX
KINX's Gasan IDC in Seoul, South Korea
Posted in KINX: Gasan IDC Source: KINX
KINX's Dogok IDC in Seoul, South Korea
Posted in KINX: Dogok IDC |
KINX's GwaCheon IDC in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Posted in KINX: GwaCheon IDC Source: KINX
Rendering of the upcoming SC Zeus facility
Posted in SC Zeus: Samsong IDC |
Rendering of Gasan facility to be completed in 2025
Posted in KT Gasan IDC |
Rendering of the Pyeongchon 2 Center
Posted in LG Uplus Pyeongchon 2 Source: LG Uplus
LG UPlus Pyeong Chon building cooling
Posted in LG Uplus Pyeongchon |
The campus comprises an office bulding and two seven-storey data centers, offering 85,547 sqare meters (920,000 sq ft) of real estate - equal to 12 soccer pitches.
LG Uplus Pyeongchon ‘Mega Center’
Posted in LG Uplus Pyeongchon |
Digital Reality's Seoul facility will be completed in late 2021
Posted in Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10) |
Rendering of Digital's 11 floor data center in Seoul
Posted in Digital Seoul 1 (ICN10) Source: DLR
Colocation floor: Ready for customers
Posted in Equinix Seoul SL1 Source: EQIX
Equinix technician in the Meet-Me-Room
Posted in Equinix Seoul SL1 Source: EQIX
Outside of Equinix SL1
Posted in Equinix Seoul SL1 Source: EQIX
Yeouido Data Center
Posted in KT Yeouido IDC Source: KT Corporation
Gangnam style IDC
Posted in KT Gangnam IDC Source: KT Corporation
Bundang IDC
Posted in KT Bundang IDC Source: KT Corporation
Korea Telecom's Mok-Dong IDC2
Posted in KT Mok-dong IDC 2 Source: KT Corporation
Location Total SqFt Gross SqFt Power (MW)
Samsung SDS: Sangam ICT 898,044 SqFt
 NN
LG Uplus Pyeongchon 2 435,938 SqFt
 NN
LG Uplus Pyeongchon 920,831 SqFt
 298,914 SqFt
 NN
Samsung SDS: Chuncheon 199,584 SqFt
LG CNS Sangam DDMC 150,695 SqFt
 NN

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