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LG CNS President and CEO Hyun Shin-Gyoon (second from left) poses for a commemorative photo at the completion ceremony for an AI data center in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov. 1. / Courtesy of LG CNS

LG CNS has become the first South Korean company to build an AI data center overseas. The company has also secured customers for the facility. LG CNS plans to further expand its artificial intelligence (AI) factory business, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.

LG CNS said on Nov. 2 that it had completed construction of a 30-megawatt (MW) hyperscale AI data center in Jakarta, Indonesia. This marks the first time a South Korean company has directly built an AI data center for an overseas client in the client's local market.

The project was commissioned last year by KMG, a joint venture between Indonesia's Sinar Mas Group and Korea Investment Real Asset Management. The project is considered significant because it demonstrates LG CNS's AI data center design, build and operation (DBO) capabilities, accumulated in South Korea, in an overseas market.

LG CNS built the data center as scalable infrastructure capable of reliably supporting high-performance computing based on next-generation graphics processing units (GPUs). The company said it adopted a hybrid cooling structure combining air cooling and liquid cooling to accommodate the characteristics of AI servers that generate large amounts of heat.

"In the first phase of construction, we applied an air-cooling system that lowers internal temperatures by circulating air. In subsequent phases, we plan to add a liquid-cooling system that controls GPU heat more efficiently, providing cooling infrastructure optimized for high-density AI server environments," LG CNS explained.

LG CNS also built a power system capable of supporting high-density environments exceeding 300 kilowatts (kW) per rack. The company emphasized that it had established a system with redundant power infrastructure to ensure stable operations using backup power even if the main power supply is interrupted.

LG CNS is currently working on designs for subsequent construction phases. Once these phases are completed, the facility's total power receiving capacity is expected to expand to 400 MW, positioning it as a major large-scale AI data center in Indonesia.

Based on its overseas construction experience and customer references gained through the Indonesian AI data center project, LG CNS plans to expand its AI data center business across the Asia-Pacific region, including Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan.

"This is a meaningful achievement in that we have provided overseas customers with the data center capabilities accumulated in South Korea and demonstrated our business competitiveness in the global market," said Hyun Shin-Gyoon, president and CEO of LG CNS, adding, "We will expand our AI data center and AI factory businesses in global markets, including the Asia-Pacific region, where demand for AI computing is rapidly increasing."

                                                                                                               Choi In-gyu