{"id":12460,"date":"2026-05-11T11:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/12460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:13:20","slug":"amazon-sk-group-will-build-ai-data-center-in-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/12460\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, SK Group will build AI data center in Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEOUL, June 16 (UPI) — South Korea’s SK Group will join hands with Amazon<\/a> Web Services, know as AWS, the world’s top cloud provider, to build a large-scale artificial intelligence data center in Ulsan, some 250 miles southeast of Seoul.<\/p>\n

The Ulsan Metropolitan City government announced Monday that the two parties would invest $5.1 billion to build a 41-megawatt facility by 2027 and expand it to 103 MW by 2029.\n<\/p>\n

However, details such as the specific investment breakdown between the two partners have not been disclosed. The project is scheduled to kick off this month, with a groundbreaking ceremony projected in August or September. Once complete, the data center will be powered by 60,000 graphics processing units<\/p>\n

“SK applied for construction of the data center in January, and we granted approval last month. Our dedicated officials will support the project,” Ulsan Mayor Kim Doo-gyeom told a press briefing.SK Telecom, a major subsidiary of SK Group and the country’s largest mobile operator, is predicted to lead the joint project with AWS.\n<\/p>\n

During the Mobile World Congress in March in Spain, SK Telecom CEO Ryu Young-sang revealed a plan to construct a data center equipped with 60,000 GPUs. In April, SK Telecom and affiliate SK Broadband reportedly spent more than $20 million to secure a 387,500-square-foot site — about the size of seven football fields — in an Ulsan industrial complex.\n<\/p>\n

Nearby, SK Group unit SK Gas operates a liquefied natural gas-combined heat and power plant, a significant advantage given the high electricity demands of mega-scale data centers.<\/p>\n

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