World’s largest ‘mega’ data center planned for South Korea in $35bn project

• Huge new data center is coming to South Korea
• Construction of 3GW facility is set to be complete by 2028
• The project will cost upwards of $10 billion, but could reach $35bn

Construction for the world’s largest data center has been given the go-ahead in South Korea, and is predicted to bring in an initial revenue of $3.5 billion – with an initial project size of $10 billion and the potential to reach $35 billion.

The data center will be built in the Jeollanam-do province, and will have a 3GW capacity – marking a huge advancement in Korea’s tech leadership, reportedly being able to, ‘triple’ the capacity of current hyper-scale facilities operated by the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.