KT Cloud is set to establish an AI Data Center Demonstration Center in Seoul, South Korea.
The demonstration center will be used to explore operation strategies for sustainable and efficient AI data centers.
Set to launch in November 2025, the demonstration center will be located at KT's Mok-dong DC 2 Center in the Yangcheon District of Seoul.
As reported by BusinessKorea, the demonstration center will enable KT Cloud to use AI-based automated data center operation technologies and partner with companies to optimize power consumption, cooling, and network operations. The company also intends to deploy liquid cooling and use renewable energy at the data center.
Heo Young-man, head of KT Cloud's data center division, said: “Through the establishment of the AI DC Demonstration Center, we will rapidly implement our advanced technologies in real-world environments and solidify the overall data center ecosystem by fostering close collaboration and mutual growth with our partners.”
Following the November launch of the demonstration center in the Mok-dong data center, KT aims to develop an independent AI DC Demonstration Center in a dedicated space in phases. The independent center will be energy self-sufficient and fully autonomous and is aimed to be completed by 2028.
KT Cloud was formed as a separate business unit of South Korean telecoms firm KT Corp in 2022. 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. As of 2022, the company had cloud regions in Cheonan and Gimhae in Seoul and a US zone in Los Angeles, California.
Datacenters.com lists 10 KT Cloud data centers across South Korea.
In September 2024, parent company KT Corporation signed a contract with Microsoft that would see KT providing $450 million worth of network and data center infrastructure to Microsoft over the next 15 years. In addition, the two companies are working on Secure Public Cloud services in South Korea, which would be KT’s sovereign cloud solution built on Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty for Korean-regulated industries such as public and financial sectors.
