Haenam Sollasido Industrial Complex to Host Korea's Largest 'Data Center Complex'

Investment Agreement Ceremony with 13 Organizations and Companies, 25 Data Center Buildings to be Established by 2037

A large-scale data center cluster, the largest in South Korea, will be established in the Solar City industrial complex in Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do.

On the 24th, 13 organizations and companies including Haenam-gun, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Jeollanam-do, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Jeonnam Development Corporation, Samsung C&T Corporation, LG CNS Co., Ltd., NH Investment & Securities Co., Ltd., TGK Co., Ltd., Boseong Industry Co., Ltd., Korea DRD Co., Ltd., and Deus Systems Co., Ltd. signed an investment agreement to create an eco-friendly renewable energy-based data center park within the Solar City industrial complex.

Haenam County has signed an investment agreement to establish an eco-friendly renewable energy-based data center park within the Solar City enterprise city.
[Photo by Haenam County]

The investment attraction business agreement ceremony held at the Solar City industrial complex promotional center was attended by Kim Young-rok, Governor of Jeollanam-do; Myung Hyun-kwan, Mayor of Haenam-gun; Park Sang-hee, Director of the New Industry Distributed Energy Division at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy; Kang Yoo-won, Head of the Gwangju-Jeonnam Regional Headquarters of Korea Electric Power Corporation; Jang Chung-mo, President of Jeonnam Development Corporation; and representatives from seven companies.

The data center park project aims to invest a total of 10 trillion KRW to build 25 data center buildings with a capacity of 40MW on RE100 industrial land within the Solar City industrial complex.

Each participating organization and company in the investment agreement plans to establish one data center building by 2025 and construct the remaining 24 buildings by 2037, committing to close cooperation.

The Solar City data center park project is being promoted in line with the Jeonnam regional government pledge to create an ‘eco-friendly renewable energy industrial belt’ and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s policy to activate the decentralization of data centers to local areas.

Data centers are large-scale facilities housing thousands of server computers, and as global data demand surges, South Korea, a leading ICT nation, is rapidly emerging as a global data center hub.

County Governor Myeonhyeon-gwan is explaining about the investment agreement ceremony for the Solarsido Enterprise City Data Center Park.
[Photo by Haenam County]

In particular, with the recent corporate movement toward RE100 conversion, Jeonnam, which has abundant renewable energy resources and safe, affordable industrial complexes, is considered the optimal location for data centers.

Haenam-gun and Jeollanam-do plan to create a large-scale renewable energy cluster in the Solar City industrial complex to supply power to the RE100 industrial complex and establish a data center park concentrated with research and development (R&D) institutions.

Mayor Myung Hyun-kwan said, “At a time when the domestic data center industry market is rapidly growing, the establishment of the Solar City data center park within the Solar City industrial complex is expected to attract global data specialized companies and companies participating in RE100 to Haenam. Starting with this investment agreement, we will spare no administrative support to ensure the successful construction of the Solar City data center park.”

The Solar City industrial complex is being developed in the Guseong-ri area of Sanim-myeon, Haenam-gun, with a vision of a garden city, smart city, cultural tourism city, and health city. It is a self-sufficient city with a population of 36,600, built on a site of 6.32 million pyeong, equipped with tourism, residential, employment, and medical functions.

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