Data center set to be completed by 2027.
South Korean telco LG Uplus has said it will invest 615.6 billion won ($441.7m) in its upcoming data center in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
As reported by EToday and ChosunBiz, the data center is set to be completed by 2027 and will eventually be capable of hosting more than 100,000 servers.
Plans to build the data center have been in the works since May 2024, when the company announced its intention to purchase real estate, including land and buildings in Paju owned by LG Display.
The site in question spans 73,710 sqm (793,410 sq ft) - approximately 4.2 times the size of LG U+'s existing Pyeongchon Mega Center and 9.7 times bigger than its Pyeongchon 2 Center. At the time of the announcement, details about the data center were not shared, but LG Uplus has now revealed its approximate timeline and capacity plans for the facility, although no information about its power capacity has been disclosed.
The facility will be an AI data center and will be designed to host GPU servers.
The company's current largest data center - the Pyeongchon Mega Center - has an IT capacity of 165MW and can accommodate an average of 8kW of power per unit. The Mega Center launched in 2015.
Construction of its second large data center, the Pyeongchon 2 Center, was completed in October 2023.
According to LG U+'s website, the company has 10 data centers operating across South Korea, including four colocation data centers in Seoul, as well as centers in Ayang, Daejeon, Jeonju, Gwangju, Daegu, and two in Busan, one of which is an army data center.
