Data Center Atlas
National AI Computing Center, Solaseado (Haenam)
Under construction
Korea, Republic of · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
South Korea's government-backed National AI Computing Center is being built in the Solaseado data center park in Haenam County, South Jeolla. A consortium led by Samsung SDS was the only bidder in the 2025 tender and was confirmed as operator in 2026; a public-private joint venture, Korea AI Computing Center (KOACC), formed in June 2026 to build and run it. The project is budgeted at more than 2 trillion won through 2030 and targets at least 15,000 advanced GPUs by 2028 and about 50,000 by 2030. Ground was broken on 3 August 2026, with completion targeted for 2028.
Source record as of 2026-08-03 · Details and sources
Location
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Projects (1)
National AI Computing Center, Solaseado (Haenam)
Under construction last observed as of · Reported status
Location: Sani-myeon (Solaseado), Haenam County, South Jeolla (Gwangju-Jeonnam), KR. Sources place the site in the Solaseado data center park in Sani-myeon, Haenam County, without coordinates; the point is the Haenam County coordinate from its Wikipedia article, so it marks the county, not the site. Samsung SDS; Edaily; Digital Today; Nocut News; Wikipedia
Use: Ai unspecified
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investment | more than 2,000,000,000,000 KRW | Announced · Campus | 2026-01-12 | Total budget for the national project from 2026 to 2030, funded by private and government investment and policy loans; the project centres on securing computing resources, so the figure is not the building cost alone. | Samsung SDS; Edaily |
| Investment | 2,406,500,000,000 KRW | Reported · Campus | 2026-05-13 | Nocut News figure for the total to be injected by 2030, including 400 billion won of equity. | Nocut News |
| Power capacity | 40 MW | Contracted · Campus · Grid connection | 2026-08-03 | Edaily reports a 40 MW supply confirmed by KEPCO and local governments after a grid review; it does not say whether this is IT or facility power. | Edaily |
| Accelerators | at least 15,000 count | Planned · Phase · 2028 target | 2026-01-12 | Advanced GPUs targeted by 2028 (Samsung SDS says more than 15,000). Edaily says the consortium's plan was based on Nvidia B200 but the chip choice may change. | Samsung SDS; Edaily; Digital Today; Nocut News |
| Accelerators | 50,000 count | Planned · Campus | 2026-05-13 | GPU target for 2030, reached in stages. | Nocut News |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korea AI Computing Center Co., Ltd. (KOACC) | Developer | Public-private special purpose company formed in June 2026 to build and operate the center. | Edaily; Digital Today |
| Korea AI Computing Center Co., Ltd. (KOACC) | Operator | Edaily; Digital Today | |
| Samsung SDS | Developer | Leads the nine-member consortium selected as the private partner; consortium members include Naver Cloud, Samsung C&T, Kakao, Samsung Electronics, KT and Clush. | Samsung SDS; Edaily; Digital Today; Nocut News |
| Ministry of Science and ICT (South Korea) | Government | Runs the national project and co-founded the joint venture. | Edaily; Digital Today; Nocut News |
| People's Growth Fund | Investor | Policy fund under the Financial Services Commission that approved an investment and co-founded the joint venture. | Digital Today |
| Jeollanam-do provincial government | Government | Consortium member that prepared the site; the province has since become part of the Gwangju-Jeonnam integrated special city. | Samsung SDS; Nocut News |
| Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) | Utility | Electricity supplier to which the joint venture applied for service. | Edaily; Digital Today |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10 | Other | Actual | The Samsung SDS consortium submitted the only bid in the government tender. | Samsung SDS |
| 2026-05-13 | Other | Actual | The Samsung SDS consortium was confirmed as the final participant, with Solaseado as the site. | Nocut News |
| 2026-06 | Other | Actual | Joint venture Korea AI Computing Center (KOACC) incorporated to build and run the center. | Edaily; Digital Today |
| 2026-08-03 | Construction started | Actual | Groundbreaking ceremony held by the Ministry of Science and ICT and attended by the science minister. Edaily dates it to the 3rd; Digital Today, publishing the same day, says it took place on Sunday, which would be 2 August. | Edaily; Digital Today |
| 2028 | Fully operational | Planned | Digital Today says construction is to be completed by 2028 and Nocut News targets full-scale operation in the second half of 2028; Edaily's translated text refers to completion in 2027. Some computing resources are to be offered earlier from a Samsung SDS data center in 2027. | Digital Today; Nocut News |
Power supply
| Type | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Grid | Power from KEPCO, to which the joint venture applied for service. | Edaily; Digital Today |
Qualifies on investment: the budget of more than 2 trillion won exceeded USD 1 billion at the time. Reported totals vary between 2.0 and 2.5 trillion won across outlets. The site name is romanized several ways (Solaseado, SoLaSeaDo, Solasido). Wikipedia is cited only for the county coordinate. This is separate from the stalled OpenAI and SK data center plan, for which Haenam was one reported candidate site.
Sources for these details
- Samsung SDS Consortium Takes Major Step Forward in National AI Computing Center Project with Its First Official Site Visit — Samsung SDS; 2026-01-12
- South Korea Joins the Global GPU War: Building a 2 Trillion Won AI Outpost in Haenam, South Jeolla Province — Edaily; 2026-08-03
- Groundbreaking held for national AI computing center in Haenam, aims for 2028 completion — Digital Today; 2026-08-03
- Jeonnam Province secures national AI Computing Center — Nocut News; 2026-05-13
- Haenam County — Wikipedia; publication date not stated
- Companies
- Developer: Korea AI Computing Center Co., Ltd. (KOACC) (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Korea AI Computing Center Co., Ltd. (KOACC) (unknown scope) evidence
- Operator: Korea AI Computing Center Co., Ltd. (KOACC) (unknown scope) evidence
- Operator: Korea AI Computing Center Co., Ltd. (KOACC) (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Samsung SDS (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Samsung SDS (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Samsung SDS (unknown scope) evidence
- Developer: Samsung SDS (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Ministry of Science and ICT (South Korea) (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Ministry of Science and ICT (South Korea) (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Ministry of Science and ICT (South Korea) (unknown scope) evidence
- Investor: People's Growth Fund (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Jeollanam-do provincial government (unknown scope) evidence
- Government: Jeollanam-do provincial government (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) (unknown scope) evidence
- Utility: Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) (unknown scope) evidence
Source and location review
- Status source
- South Korea Joins the Global GPU War: Building a 2 Trillion Won AI Outpost in Haenam, South Jeolla Province evidence row
Edaily · published 2026-08-03 · News - Locator
- County or district reference only · Compiled location reference · admin2 evidence
- Source checks
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No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 85 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 34.57420, 126.59750
- Geometry licence
- source-terms-not-recorded
- Use scope
- County or district reference only
- Scope class
- admin2
- Authority
- Compiled location reference
- Source entity
- Project
- Method
- imported_reference_point
- Derivation
- imported_reference_point
- Precision scope
- Sources place the site in the Solaseado data center park in Sani-myeon, Haenam County, without coordinates; the point is the Haenam County coordinate from its Wikipedia article, so it marks the county, not the site.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
- 4c353195
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groundbreaking held for national AI computing center in Haenam, aims for 2028 completion Archived copy | Digital Today News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Accelerators, Milestone: Construction Started, Milestone: Fully Operational, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Role: Government, Role: Investor, Operator claim, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | Digital Today | 33650f044dc15da23196db346b9f5f76037fb662d2f29da6cb4c10aaae37696fFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Haenam County Archived copy | Wikipedia Other | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Wikipedia | 213ae1484f6e8425b7dcfcabf362f0c4e112e6d786725c7747d11dc524a5cabcFactual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Jeonnam Province secures national AI Computing Center Archived copy | Nocut News News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Accelerators, Metric: Investment, Milestone: Fully Operational, Milestone: Other, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | Nocut News | 1ef3f017a123f6fafc4daf1ef6bb52d56619bf26f8fc3a0a58cbf0cf182f9b6bFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| Samsung SDS Consortium Takes Major Step Forward in National AI Computing Center Project with Its First Official Site Visit Archived copy | Samsung SDS Company disclosure | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Accelerators, Metric: Investment, Milestone: Other, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | Samsung SDS | 2b95e8406c6faf6f5de66e25f02c0747a57b78c2d3ecd40d2cbd36663ff1e5ecFactual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| South Korea Joins the Global GPU War: Building a 2 Trillion Won AI Outpost in Haenam, South Jeolla Province Archived copy | Edaily News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Accelerators, Metric: Investment, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Construction Started, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Role: Government, Operator claim, Role: Utility | source-terms-not-recorded | Edaily | f0cba28d7a8cd53be2fb1dc56c5eb5d954a1d9553640cb037eced5af70669386Factual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). National AI Computing Center, Solaseado (Haenam) [site vcc-site-af1774a8d4eb3398e76e]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-af1774a8d4eb3398e76e/
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