LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo emphasized the need for concentrated and coordinated efforts among affiliates in the group’s artificial intelligence (AI) data center project during a visit to LG Uplus Corp.’s data center.

According to business sources on Sunday, Koo recently toured LG Uplus’ Pyeongchon Mega Center, its internet data center in the greater Seoul area, where he inspected power supply systems, cooling systems, battery rooms, and data rooms. During the visit, he reportedly called for securing a “differentiated competitiveness” unique to LG in the AI data center business, which the group sees as a key growth driver.

Operational and management expertise for data center facilities is shared across LG affiliates. LG Uplus and LG CNS Co. provide operational and management expertise; LG Uplus supplies telecommunications infrastructure; LG Electronics Inc. offers chiller cooling solutions; and LG Energy Solution Ltd. contributes battery technology. LG is viewed as particularly competitive in chillers, water-cooling and immersion cooling technologies, and energy storage system (ESS) battery solutions.

AI data centers are emerging as a fast-growing manufacturing sector, with the United States and China racing to expand their capacities and market researcher Precedence Research projecting the global data center market will total $286.3 billion in 2025. Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang forecast that global corporate capital spending on data centers to hit $1 trillion by 2028, citing the accelerating scale of AI development.

AI data centers require the integration of technologies and infrastructure including semiconductors, construction and engineering, cooling and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, network and optical communications, and power infrastructure.

Park Jong-bae, a professor at Konkuk University, called AI data centers “critical infrastructure for future manufacturing,” adding that government action on regulatory and power grid issues is key to building a healthy ecosystem.

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