Samsung SDS has broken ground on its Gumi AI Data Center in South Korea, which will eventually offer 120MW.

Samsung SDS has broken ground on a new AI data center in Gongdan-dong, Gumi-si, South Korea.

Dubbed the Gumi AI Data Center, the facility will be developed in phases, starting with 60MW of capacity and ultimately scaling to 120MW. It will occupy a 498,165 sq ft (46,281 sqm) site. Construction is now underway, and the data center is expected to be completed in late 2028.

The project is part of Samsung's commitment to invest 60 trillion won ($44.671bn) in establishing the Yeongnam region as a "Global Physical AI Innovation Cluster." Samsung SDS announced last January that it would invest 427.3 billion won ($318 million) in an AI data center in Gumi, and it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with North Gyeongsang Province and Gumi City for the project's construction. The company is also investing in manufacturing and robot automation, all-solid-state batteries, package substrates for AI servers, and multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs).

The data center will use a hybrid cooling system. Air cooling will serve the general server areas for networking and storage, while liquid cooling will serve the high-density GPU server areas. The facility will host in-house GPUs that offer compute to customers, and it will also operate a colocation business to host other companies' hardware.

Lee Jun-hee, president and CEO of Samsung SDS, said: "AI is transforming the way companies work and the competitiveness of industries. For these changes to translate into tangible results, a robust foundation capable of processing vast amounts of data and operating AI stably is required, and the Gumi AI Data Center will fulfill that role."

He added: "Samsung SDS will combine its accumulated experience in data center construction and operation with its cloud and AI technology capabilities to create an AI infrastructure that customers can trust and utilize."

Samsung SDS is the IT and cloud unit of Samsung. In August 2026, it revealed plans to launch an NPU-as-a-Service (NPUaaS) offering in South Korea using FuriosaAI's RNGD NPUs. The company is deploying these RNGD accelerators at its Dongtan data center, which opened in March 2023. Known as the Dongtan IDC, the facility spans six floors with four server rooms and has a PUE of 1.12, enabled by its use of natural air cooling.

Samsung SDS says it operates 18 data centers from which it offers cloud services. With the Gumi site, it will operate five in South Korea.