SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s industry minister said Monday that the country plans to foster cooling equipment for data centers as one of its new export engines amid the growing demand for infrastructure to support the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun made the remark during his visit to LG [...]
DUBAI, UAE, June 27, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ: FRSH) today announced the launch of its new data center, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), in the UAE. This underscores Freshworks’ commitment to driving innovation across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) by making it easier for businesses to harness the full power of [...]
ANSAN, South Korea, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger, has unveiled its first independent data center as part of its effort to improve service stability following a massive service disruption in 2022. “A data center is a core asset for Kakao, crucial for the stable operation [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Tripitaka Koreana, the most complete collection of Buddhist scriptures carved on around 80,000 wooden printing blocks made in the 13th century, has been preserved at a depository named Janggyeong Panjeon at Haein Temple in the southeastern county of Hapcheon in South Korea. The storage hall, solely designed and built [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to build a 120 megawatt data center in the southeastern industrial city of Pohang by 2027, the industry ministry said Friday. The ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with Pohang city and North Gyeongsang Province and the state-run Korea Electric Power Corp., as well as [...]
SEJONG, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A large-scale data center integration complex is planned to be established in South Jeolla Province to utilize the region’s abundant solar electricity. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Thursday it had entered a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the South Jeolla provincial government and the Korea Electric [...]
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 [...]