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 [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Tuesday it will invest more than 300 billion won (US$267.9 million) to build a new internet data center amid growing user demand. The company said in a regulatory filing that it will invest 318.1 billion won for a new [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has started mass-production of a power-efficient solid state drive (SSD) for data centers that also boasts enhanced security solutions. The South Korean tech giant said PM9A3E1.S is the industry’s first data center-use SSD product based on sixth-generation V-NAND chips. It supports the standards [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading wireless carrier, said Wednesday it launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor for data center operations as it seeks to capture growing global demand for the chips. The new SAPEON X220 is the first AI chip developed by the mobile carrier and also [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean internet giant Kakao Corp. said Monday it will establish a data center in a city south of Seoul in an industrial-educational cooperation project. Under a deal with Hanyang University and the Gyeonggi provincial government, the data center will be built on the university’s campus in Ansan, some [...]