November 03, 2026 Samsung SDS
Samsung SDS has begun construction on the Gumi AI Data Center in Gongdan-dong, Gumi, in South Korea's North Gyeongsang Province. The company held a groundbreaking ceremony on Nov. 2 at the former Samsung Electronics Gumi Plant 1 site, Samsung SDS said. The facility starts with 60MW of power...
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October 30, 2026 South Korea
Hyundai Motor Group will develop an AI data center in Saemangeum, in the South Korean city of Gunsan, after five group affiliates approved the investment. The project is part of the group's approximately 9 trillion won Saemangeum AI Valley development. Two special-purpose companies will...
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October 29, 2026 South Korea
Naver has signed a financing agreement with Brookfield for up to $9 billion, completing funding for a $10 billion expansion of its GAK Sejong data center into a 200MW AI factory, KED Global reported. The signing clears the condition for Nvidia's planned $1 billion equity investment in Naver,...
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October 24, 2026 Seoul
KT Cloud has started construction on a 50MW AI data center in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, with completion targeted for 2029. The company announced the Ansan AI Data Center on Oct. 22. KT Cloud develops the facility on land it owns and will operate it. CJ Logistics' construction division won the...
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October 21, 2026 South Korea
SC Capital Partners has invested in NeoAI Cloud’s 40MW data center in Pohang, South Korea, alongside government-backed investors. Construction has begun, with completion targeted for late 2027. The facility will support AI workloads with liquid cooling designed for Nvidia Vera Rubin systems. The...
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October 08, 2026 South Korea
KT Cloud is developing a 50MW data center in the Cheongna district of Incheon, South Korea. The facility will have two basement levels and 11 floors above ground. Construction is due to begin in Q4 2026, with completion targeted for Q1 2030. As the design, build, and operate partner, KT Cloud...
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September 29, 2026 Samsung SDS
Samsung has invested $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, the data center developer established by KKR. Helix and KKR announced on September 29 that Samsung committed the funding through its long-duration capital fund, providing additional capital to support Helix’s data center expansion....
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August 01, 2026 Seoul
South Korean conglomerate LG will invest an additional 1.3 trillion won ($910 million) in its 200MW data center project in Paju, located about 19 miles (31km) north of Seoul, according to local reports. The new investment more than doubles LG’s previous commitment of 615.6 billion won ($441.7...
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July 07, 2026 Samsung SDS
Samsung is reportedly targeting the second quarter of 2028 to launch its floating data center (FDC) initiative. The company’s heavy industries division aims to secure customer orders by the launch date, with Samsung Heavy Industries pursuing multiple projects as it works toward commercializing...
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June 16, 2026 Seoul
NFD Korea is planning a 300MW data center campus in Dangjin, a city south of Seoul. The 43,188 sqm (464,871 sq ft) facility will include six buildings, each with 50MW of capacity. The company has secured construction permits and a power agreement with Korea Electric Power Corporation, with...
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March 25, 2026 Samsung SDS
Samsung Electronics has become a colocation customer at Digital Realty’s data center in Seoul, South Korea.Samsung Electronics, the technology division of South Korean conglomerate Samsung, will host its enterprise IT workloads at Digital Realty’s ICN10 colocation data center in Sangam Digital...
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March 19, 2026 South Korea
Shinsegae Group and Reflection AI plan to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, set to be the country’s largest sovereign AI facility. The two companies signed an MoU in San Francisco this week, attended by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnic, outlining their intention to form a joint venture...
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February 05, 2026 South Korea
South Korean energy company SGC Energy is set to build a 300MW data center in Gunsan, marking its first foray into the AI data center business.The 300MW facility will be built at the Gunsan National Industrial Complex 2, the largest of two industrial areas located around Gunsan that house...
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October 06, 2025 South Korea
The German cooling division of French utility Engie is to provide cooling equipment to data center customers in South Korea and the Netherlands. The firm said it would be supplying a total of 28 Quantum Air chillers with a total cooling capacity of 58.8MW to an unnamed data center in South Korea....
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September 25, 2025 South Korea
Investment firm Warburg Pincus this week announced that it has partnered with DC Connects, a South Korean data center developer, and Wide Creek AMC, a Seoul-based asset manager, to acquire a greenfield site in Yongin City and develop an 80MW data center.Dongkun Cho, principal of Warburg Pincus,...
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September 11, 2025 South Korea
OpenAI is considering developing a data center in South Korea. OpenAI's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, said the company was open to partnerships regarding data center construction. He added that the ChatGPT-maker could expand its cooperation with the likes of Samsung and SK Telecom, and...
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August 15, 2025 South Korea
Vast Data is teaming up with SK Telecom on the latter's AI cluster - the Haein Cluster was launched earlier this month with 1,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs, building on SK Telecom's existing offering based on Nvidia H100s.“Vast Data’s unified architecture has been instrumental in helping us move...
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November 23, 2024 South Korea
Pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) this week announced a KRW 1 trillion (US$711 million) joint venture with Pacific Asset Management Company (Pacific AMC) to develop carrier-neutral hyperscale data centers in South Korea.“The demand for data centers in Asia...
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August 19, 2024 South Korea
Two Korean AI chip startups with wealthy backers have decided to merge on an equity value ratio of 1:2.4, respectively. The new company will retain the name Rebellions, and be run by Rebellions’ CEO Park Sung-hyun. Sapeon counts SKT, SK Square, and SK Hynix as investors. The company launched its...
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July 18, 2024 South Korea
Korean telco SK Telecom has revealed that it will be investing $200 million in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure business Smart Global Holdings. The Korean telco will be taking an equity stake in exchange for the cash, and the companies plan to work together to “leverage their...
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