10MW data center saw 110 billion won in investment.
KT Cloud has completed its 10MW data center in Yecheon-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea.
The company held a completion ceremony for the AI cloud data center on May 29, reports the South Korean Business Post.
Dubbed the Gyeongbuk AI Cloud Data Center, the project was a public-private partnership, established with the Gyeongsangbuk-do, Yecheon-gun Office.
KT first acquired the site and the auxiliary facilities in 2023. The data center spans four stories, offering a total floor area of 9,830 sqm (105,790 sq ft) with 10MW of power capacity and an IT capacity of 6MW.
Around 110 billion won ($79.7m) was invested in the data center. KT expects to provide its cloud services from the facility in the second half of 2025.
Choi Ji-woong, CEO of KT Cloud, said: “The Gyeongbuk AI Cloud Data Center in cooperation with Gyeongsangbuk-do is significant as the first public-private cooperation model in Korea. We will contribute to the revitalization of the local data industry and strategically expand new data centers according to customer demand to proactively respond to the domestic AI cloud market demand.”
KT Cloud was formed as a separate business unit of South Korean telecoms firm KT Corp in 2022. The company aims to have 320MW of operating data center capacity by 2030.
In July 2022, the company announced plans for a 26MW data center in southern Seoul’s Geumcheon District. The facility, Gasan IDC, has 10 stories above ground and five under, with a capacity for more than 100,000 servers.
This year so far has seen KT selected as the operator of an upcoming 30MW data center located at 166-2 Gae Bong Dong in Seoul, and announcing plans to establish an AI Data Center demonstration facility at the Mok-dong DC 2 data center.
Datacenters.com lists 10 KT Cloud data centers across South Korea, not including the newly launched facility.
