Investment firm Stock Farm Road (SFR) just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Jeolla Province Governor Kom Young-rok to build the largest data center in the world. The facility will be located in the southwest corner of South Korea with a projected cost of about $35 billion and a capacity of 3 GW, according to a report by Interesting Engineering. This would dwarf other data centers being built around the world, like Portugal’s Sines Data Center (1.2 GW) and Oracle’s 1 GW AI data center. This could potentially even be bigger than Elon Musk’s plan to put a million GPUs in his Colossus supercluster.
Construction on the AI data center is set to begin this year, with a target completion date of 2028. This is a bit shorter than the average setup time of four years that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang once said, but it still cannot beat Musk’s record of 19 days (although that is for a smaller number of GPUs). However, it seems that the project will not just focus on the data center itself but will also include other infrastructure required to run it. It’s said that the project “will also feature renewable energy production, equipment supply, and research and development (R&D) initiatives aimed at long-term technological sustainability.”
