Alibaba Cloud entered the South Korean market in 2022 with a data centre in Seoul, serving customers including AI solutions provider Univa and Naver subsidiary Snow that already use AliCloud’s foundational AI models, the company said.
Alibaba Group Holding will open a second data centre in South Korea by the end of June, accelerating its multibillion-dollar bet on artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
The new facility is part of a 380 billion yuan ($68.07 billion) investment in AI and cloud infrastructure announced earlier this year, an Alibaba spokesperson said. The expansion comes in response to growing demand from South Korean businesses for cloud and AI services, the company said in a statement Thursday.
