TREE NEWS reports: SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said the AI data center the group is building in Ulsan has expanded to nearly 900 megawatts, and that SK plans to announce more partnerships with global technology companies as the project advances. The Ulsan facility is being developed jointly by SK Group and Amazon AWS, with an expected investment of 7 trillion won ($5.2 billion) and operations targeted for the second half of 2027.
SK Group’s Ulsan AI Data Center Capacity Expands to Nearly 900 MW
The scale revision matters less than the partner mix: an AWS-anchored buildout of this size turns Ulsan into a test of whether Korean conglomerates can convert industrial land and power into AI capacity fast enough to matter. It also signals that sovereign-adjacent compute demand is pulling Big Tech into joint ventures rather than wholly owned sites. The open question is whether the announced global partnerships extend beyond cloud hyperscalers into chip, power and cooling suppliers — that would show how much of the stack Korea intends to localize.
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