SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung SDS Co.’s Dongtan Data Center, arguably the first Internet Data Center for High Performance Computing (HPC) in South Korea, is garnering attention with its eco-friendly server cooling method that doesn’t require power. The method dissipates data server heat by utilizing external air in winter or in-between seasons when [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s science ministry said Wednesday it has opened a massive computing data center for artificial intelligence studies as part of the country’s plan to build a world-class AI research network. The Research Data Center of AI Innovation Hub, located in the Seoul campus of Korea University, is a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Solutions Corp., a key energy unit of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, plans to create a fund to expand its domestic renewable energy-related data center development venture. The company announced on Monday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SKS Credit Co., a local private equity [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The ICT ministry said Tuesday it will order the country’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. to come up with measures within a month to prevent a recurrence of a service outage stemming from a data center fire. The move came after a fire on Oct. 15 at the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A fire at a data center near Seoul has disrupted services of South Korea’s dominant messenger and internet portal for a day, affecting nearly all sectors of the country, even finance and transportation. The fire broke out at 3:33 p.m. Saturday at the building of SK C&C located in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s two major tech giants — Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. — suffered a service malfunction on Saturday due to a fire at a data center, officials said. The blaze broke out at around 3:33 p.m. at the building of SK C&C located in Pangyo, just south of [...]
SINGAPORE, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – STACK Infrastructure (“STACK”), the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies and a leading global developer and operator of data centers, and ESR Group Limited (“ESR” or the “Company”, together with its subsidiaries as the “Group”; SEHK Stock Code: 1821), APAC’s largest real asset manager powered by the New [...]
JOÃO PESSOA, Brazil, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — HostDime has announced the start of construction of a solar power plant to support the entirety of its purpose-built data center in João Pessoa, Brazil. The $1.2 million (R5,500,000 BRL) investment in the solar power farm will be able to supply the entire current power infrastructure (1.2MW) [...]
HONG KONG SAR, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) - China Mobile International Limited (CMI) today announced that construction of the China Mobile Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Hong Kong Fo Tan Data Center (Fo Tan Data Center) is now underway. Being built by CMI in Fo Tan, Hong Kong, with the Mainland as the hinterland, the new facility is [...]
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — HostDime is excited to announce another addition to its purpose-built, next-gen, public data center portfolio with the purchase of a three-acre land parcel in Guadalajara, Mexico. With an estimated completion date of Q4 2023, this will be the future home of HostDime Mexico’s Tier IV facility, a rarity in [...]