📋 Tender Overview
Scope : To Build Hyper-Scale Data Center in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
LG Uplus, one of the nation's top telecom carriers plans to build a large-scale data center in response to the growing demand for such facilities, largely driven by the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and cloud servers across industries.
To build the new data center, the company is set to acquire land and buildings located in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, from LG Display, a panel manufacturing arm of LG Group. The exact investment amount and construction timeline were not disclosed immediately.
According to LG Uplus, this new facility will span approximately 73,712 square meters, equivalent to nine soccer fields, and surpass the size of the company’s two existing large-scale data centers in Pyeongchon, south of Seoul.
The decision to build a new data center aligns with the company's strategy to meet the increasing demand for large-scale data centers fueled by the increasing adoption of generative artificial intelligence and the acceleration of cloud transitions by information technology businesses.
The Paju data center will feature an insulating fluid-based cooling system from the start of construction, as liquid-based systems offer greater energy efficiency and superior cooling performance.
LG Uplus intends to develop the Paju data center as the country's premier artificial intelligence data center optimized for managing high-performance graphics processing units, or GPUs.
Securing a site for constructing a hyperscale data center enables to proactively respond to the explosive growth in demand for data centers.
