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Kakao Signs 400 Bln Won Deal to Construct its First Data Center in Ansan

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James Jung by James Jung
PUBLISHED: September 7, 2020 UPDATED: September 8, 2020
in Cloud Computing, Data Center, Kakao, Seoul, South Korea
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Kakao Signs 400 Bln Won Deal to Construct its First Data Center in Ansan
Kakao signs 400 billion won deal with Hanyang University, and the Gyeonggi local government to construct its first data center in Ansan by 2023. / photo courtesy of Kakao Corp.

Kakao signs 400 billion won deal with Hanyang University, and the Gyeonggi local government to construct its first data center in Ansan by 2023. / photo courtesy of Kakao Corp.

Kakao Corp. announced on Monday that it would establish its first data center in Ansan, Gyeonggi, South of Seoul, by 2023. Kakao, Hanyang University, and the Gyeonggi and Ansan local government agreed to construct the facility inside the university’s Erica campus.

According to Kakao, the facility would cost a total of 400 billion won ($336.6 million) and 18,383 square meters of land.

Yeo Min-soo, Kakao’s CEO, said that the company aims to build the best data center in the industry with efficiency, stability, and security. It would support the growth of significant technological advancements.

Site of Kakao's first data center. (Gyeonggi Provincial government)
Site of Kakao’s first data center. (Gyeonggi Provincial government)

Breaking Ground

Kakao would finalize the design of the industrial-educational data project this year and would start building in 2021. The company intends to complete its construction in 2023.

The data center would hold 120,000 servers and would include a total storage capacity of six billion gigabytes.

Kakao’s first data center would also provide companies’ core infrastructure as their physical base for servers, data storage, and network equipment. The company outsourced its data storage facilities before since it began in 2006, even after expanding into finance and games.

The data center would provide a solid foundation for its research and development in artificial intelligence and big data. The facility would also strengthen the company’s data management skills.

The center would also help Kakao Enterprise prepare its plans to launch a cloud service for its corporate clients.

The data center would contain eco-friendly structures like water and energy consumption monitoring systems and rainwater collection set-ups. The use of new tools could minimize or prevent damage in case of emergency blackouts.

Designated to become the “technological innovation cluster” by the government, the Ansan Science Valley would host Kakao’s data center. The municipality expects the center to generate 2,700 jobs and produce an estimated 800 billion won ($672.5 million) income.

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Tags: $336 million400 billion wonAnsanAnsan Science ValleyCloudData CenterErica CampusGyeonggiHamyang UniversityKakao

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