STT GDC to expand to South Korea

The firm will build its first data centre campus in South Korea.

Singapore-headquartered data centre service provider ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has revealed plans to expand to South Korea.

According to a statement, the firm has entered into a partnership with Korean high-voltage electrical equipment manufacturing and construction company Hyosung Heavy Industries to “jointly develop and operate STT GDC’s first carrier-neutral data centre campus” in South Korea.

The partnership has been agreed on a 60:40 basis.

“We have observed the data centre industry in South Korea to be fast-growing on the back of increasing demand for digital solutions and services,” Takeshi Yokota, representative director of Hyosung Heavy Industries, said. “With our long-standing expertise and leveraging STT GDC's operational Data Centre excellence, we are excited to extend our capabilities and venture into building green data centres to support the surging demands of IT infrastructure sustainably.”