AI NewsWaveLG CNS Completes 30MW AI Data Center in Indonesia
Key points
- LG CNS completes AI data center in Jakarta, Indonesia
- First case of a Korean company directly building a facility for an overseas client
- Customers secured for full capacity before completion
LG CNS has completed construction of a 30MW hyperscale AI data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The company announced it on Nov. 2. Tech M, Sisa Journal e, Blotter, Digital Today, iNews24, Digital Daily, Chosun Biz, The Elec and EBN reported the news.
Digital Today, Chosun Biz and EBN relayed the company's explanation that it is the first case of a Korean company directly building an AI data center for an overseas client on site. Sisa Journal e described it as the first in the domestic IT services industry. Digital Daily, The Elec and Chosun Biz wrote that it had already secured customers equal to the full capacity before completion. Blotter said in its headline that the leasing demand has been fully filled.
Some details of the project were also reported. The Elec said LG CNS bore fruit a little over a year after winning a project worth 100 billion won last year, and Blotter explained that the project worth about 100 billion won won last year led to actual completion. Digital Today wrote that the project was carried out with a joint venture of Indonesia's Sinar Mas Group and Korea Investment Real Asset Management. Tech M explained that the group's power, cooling and energy infrastructure capabilities were put into the local customer's project.
Outlets worded future plans differently. Tech M and EBN reported that LG CNS plans to expand the scope of its AI data center business across the Asia-Pacific region. AI Newspaper (인공지능신문) wrote that it is also pursuing a plan to expand to 400MW in the future. Sisa Journal e pointed out that a considerable part of LG CNS's overseas sales has so far come from overseas subsidiaries of group affiliates.
Recent developments LG CNS said on the 30th that it posted third-quarter revenue of 1.6643 trillion won and operating profit of 138.2 billion won. According to Techworld News, revenue rose 9.3% and operating profit rose 15.0% from a year earlier, and AI Newspaper reported that about 58% of total revenue came from the AI and cloud businesses.
Glossary A hyperscale data center is an ultra-large data center designed to hold a large number of servers and scale up capacity as needed. MW (megawatt) is a unit of power capacity.