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Making of NFD Korea’s 300MW AI information center school
NFD Korea has actually moved its 300MW AI information center school in the Songsan 2 General Industrial Complex, Dangjin (Chungcheongnam-do), into full-blown advancement. For the very first 200MW stage, website acquisition, a power supply contract, and structure licenses(finished in early September 2026)are now in location together with basic professional (GC) choice, with building and construction slated to start in early November 2026. The recently included 100MW stage has actually likewise gotten in the allowing procedure following the city government arrangement, targeting conclusion within December 2026. Stage 1( Building A)is targeting a Q1 2028 Ready-for-Service (RFS)date. Found approximately 90km southwest of Seoul, the school is being created with liquid cooling supporting approximately 160kW per rack, providing the high-density, AI-native facilities needed for massive training and reasoning work.
As power and licenses have actually ended up being harder to protect throughout the Seoul city location, need has actually risen for alternative websites providing both city distance and a clear course to power and authorizations. The Dangjin website was put together ahead of this shift, and the current authorization conclusion and GC choice have materially de-risked the task’s execution timeline.
Momentum has actually likewise been enhanced by city government support. The Dangjin Songsan cluster came from with a 2023 memorandum of understanding (MOU) covering the preliminary 200MW, and on September 9, Chungcheongnam-do Province, the City of Dangjin, NFD Korea, and EFD Co., Ltd. signed a follow-on ‘AI Data Center Investment Agreement’ covering the freshly included 100MW parcel at the Chungcheongnam-do provincial federal government workplace. With this, website control is now verified throughout the complete cluster– the existing 200MW (Buildings A and B) and the recently included 100MW (Building C)– offering the complete 300MW school a total execution structure and additional minimizing community-opposition threat through active city government assistance.
Chungcheongnam-do Province, the City of Dangjin, NFD Korea, and EFD signed the’AI Data Center Investment Agreement'( 100MW, around KRW 1.2405 trillion/ ~ US$ 920 million)
CEO Choi Jae-woo stated,”With website acquisition, power, and allows now locked down, and GC choice and city government arrangements completed, the Dangjin task has actually moved into full-blown execution.”He included,”Between low community-opposition threat inside the commercial complex, distance to the Seoul city, and strong city government support, Dangjin is placed to provide AI information center capability rapidly, and with sufficient power headroom, it’s a perfect website for additional growth.”
DL E&C, the basic specialist (GC), is presently in pre-construction (precon) on Building A of the 200MW (Buildings A and B) stage, with that allowed 200MW section beginning in early November. The recently included 100MW (Building C) sector is now in the allowing procedure, targeting conclusion within December 2026. LS Electric has actually settled a supply arrangement for the core electrical facilities– step-up transformers– to be provided in stages from 2027 through 2028, while NFD Korea has actually currently secured a 300MW power supply contract with Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), finishing the power and devices procurement stack. Lease settlements with worldwide CSPs and AI business are likewise actively underway, drawing growing market interest in the task.
The school will reach industrial operation in phases, beginning with Phase 1 (Building A) and followed by Phases 2 and 3. Stage 1 is targeting a Q1 2028 Ready-for-Service (RFS) date, while Phases 2 and 3 are likewise targeting RFS within 2028– putting the complete 300MW online in phases within a single fiscal year.
Last requirements will be settled according to renter requirements. The website’s area inside an existing commercial complex likewise provides it relatively low community-opposition danger, a problem that has actually postponed many information center tasks in other places in Korea.
NFD Korea was established by CEO Choi Jae-woo, who developed his hyperscale and cloud facilities performance history at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DCI Data Centers, a Brookfield portfolio business. NFD Korea’s performance history consists of an 80MW hyperscale information center presently under advancement in Yongin City (building and construction started September 2025, targeting a 2028 RFS), with Dangjin marking the business’s next flagship job after Yongin. With licenses total and city government arrangements in location, NFD Korea anticipates growing interest from hyperscalers, worldwide cloud provider (CSPs), and domestic and global financiers pursuing massive digital facilities chances. NFD Korea is likewise constructing an across the country, gigawatt (GW)-scale information center advancement pipeline.
Stay tuned to the NFD Korea Website and NFD Korea LinkedIn for additional updates and info on the job.
