NAVER — Spring Cloud AI Data Center

NAVER’s Spring Cloud data center in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, is South Korea’s largest internet company’s primary AI compute facility. NAVER uses the facility for training and serving HyperCLOVA X — one of the largest language models built by an Asian tech company, with 82 billion parameters. The data center was purpose-built for NAVER’s AI ambitions, housing NVIDIA GPU clusters alongside the company’s own AI infrastructure. Chuncheon’s cool climate reduces cooling costs, and the facility benefits from proximity to Seoul (about 70 km) for fiber connectivity. NAVER has positioned HyperCLOVA X as a foundation model for Korean enterprise AI, competing with GPT-4 and Gemini in the Korean market. The Spring Cloud campus is complemented by a second facility (Data Center 2) also in Gangwon, adding further redundancy and capacity.