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Stock Farm Road 3 GW AI Data Center (South Korea)
Muan County (planned), Jeollanam-do (planned), South Korea
2028
Announced3.0 GW

Stock Farm Road, Inc. signed an early-2025 memorandum of understanding with Jeollanam-do authorities to build a 3 GW AI compute campus, one of the most ambitious proposals in the global pipeline. The multiyear project could require up to $3

SK Group–AWS Ulsan AI Data Center (South Korea)
Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
2028
Announced1.0 GW

SK Group and Amazon Web Services unveiled a joint $5.1 billion investment in June 2025 to develop a hyperscale AI data center campus in Ulsan. The flagship complex anchors a planned "AI Zone" that will ultimately accommodate roughly 1 GW of

SoftBank Tomakomai AI Data Center (Japan)
Tomakomai, Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan
2026
Under Construction300 MW

SoftBank is developing what is slated to be Japan’s largest AI data center in Tomakomai, Hokkaido. Announced in partnership with NVIDIA in November 2024, the facility will be the first in the world to receive NVIDIA DGX B200 systems (Blackw

Microsoft Taiwan North AI Cloud Region
Taipei, Taiwan North, Taiwan
2026
Planned200 MW

Microsoft is set to launch the "Taiwan North" Azure region for general availability in 2026, representing its largest investment in Taiwan in over 30 years. The region is designed to comprise multiple data center facilities and is specifica

AIST ABCI-3 Supercomputer (Japan)
Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
2025
Operational

Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology is rolling out the ABCI-3 platform at its Tsukuba campus to meet surging demand for generative AI. Built on HPE Cray XD systems with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and Quantum-2 Inf

Microsoft — Japan AI Data Centers (Tokyo & Osaka)
Tokyo, Tokyo & Osaka, Japan
2024
Operational500 MW

Microsoft announced a $2.9 billion (¥440 billion) investment in April 2024 to significantly expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in Japan, its largest-ever investment in the country. This expansion doubles the company’s existing computing

Cyberport AI Supercomputing Centre (AISC) — Hong Kong
Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
2024
Operational50 MW

The Cyberport Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Centre (AISC) is Hong Kong's first large-scale, government-backed AI computing facility. Phase 1 officially commenced operations in December 2024 with a computing power of 1,300 Petaflops

Tencent Tianjin AI Data Center (China)
Tianjin, Tianjin, China
2023
Operational300 MW

Tencent operates a 300 MW cloud and AI campus in Tianjin that underpins the company's large-model development and nationwide cloud services. The facility uses proprietary high-density liquid cooling to cut energy costs by roughly 30 percent

DeepSeek — AI Training Cluster
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
2023
Operational100 MW

DeepSeek's AI training cluster in Hangzhou, operated by parent company High-Flyer Quant (幻方科技), gained global attention in early 2025 when its DeepSeek-R1 and V3 models matched GPT-4-class performance at a fraction of the training cost — re

Kakao — KakaoCloud AI Data Center
Ansan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
2022
Operational80 MW

Kakao's cloud data center campus supports KakaoCloud — Korea's third-largest cloud provider — and hosts the AI models powering Kakao's vast consumer platform (KakaoTalk, KakaoMap, Kakao T ride-sharing, and others used by 90%+ of South Korea

SenseTime Lin-gang AIDC (China)
Shanghai, Lin-gang Special Area, Shanghai, China
2022
Operational

SenseTime brought its Lin-gang Artificial Intelligence Data Center online in January 2022 to power the company's SenseCore supercomputing platform. Built with a ¥5.6 billion investment, the hyperscale cluster delivers more than 2.5 exaFLOPS

Baidu AI Cloud — Yanqi Lake Data Center
Yanqing, Beijing, China
2021
Operational600 MW

Baidu's Yanqi Lake AI Cloud data center in Yanqing District, Beijing, is one of China's largest purpose-built AI training facilities. The facility powers training of Baidu's ERNIE (文心) family of large language models, which compete with GPT

ByteDance Volcengine — Inner Mongolia AI Training Cluster
Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
2021
Operational600 MW

ByteDance's Inner Mongolia data center cluster, operated through its cloud arm Volcengine, is one of the largest AI training facilities in China. Inner Mongolia is a preferred location for Chinese hyperscalers due to ultra-cheap coal and wi

Huawei Cloud — Guizhou AI Data Center
Guiyang, Guizhou, China
2021
Operational400 MW

Huawei Cloud's Guizhou data center cluster in Guiyang, the provincial capital of Guizhou, is a major hub for training the Pangu (盘古) large model family, which includes language, vision, and scientific AI models. Guizhou was designated China

Amazon Web Services — Osaka Region (AP Northeast 3)
Osaka, Kansai, Japan
2021
Operational150 MW

AWS expanded its Japan presence with the AP Northeast 3 Osaka Region, launched as a full multi-AZ region in March 2021 after operating as a Local Region since 2011. The Osaka region provides geographic redundancy for AWS Japan customers, th

Alibaba Cloud — Zhangbei Super Data Center
Zhangbei, Hebei, China
2020
Operational500 MW

Alibaba Cloud's Zhangbei Super Data Center sits on the windswept Bashang Plateau in Hebei Province, 260 kilometers northwest of Beijing. The campus is specifically designed for AI training workloads powering the Tongyi Qianwen (通义千问) large

Google Cloud — South Korea (Seoul) Region
Seoul, Seoul Capital Area, South Korea
2020
Operational200 MW

Google Cloud's Seoul region (asia-northeast3) launched in 2020, making South Korea Google's third Asia Pacific region after Tokyo and Singapore. With South Korea ranking among the world's highest AI-adoption economies — home to Samsung, LG,

Oracle Cloud — South Korea (Seoul)
Seoul, Seoul Capital Area, South Korea
2020
Operational80 MW

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's South Korea region, operating from Seoul since 2020, is OCI's flagship footprint in the Korean market. South Korea's large manufacturing and semiconductor sector relies on Oracle's database-centric AI services

AWS — Hong Kong Cloud Region (AI Expansion)
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2019
Operational100 MW

AWS has significantly deepened its AI-focused infrastructure in Hong Kong as part of a multi-billion dollar regional strategy. In May 2025, AWS and Cyberport launched a Joint Innovation Center (JIC) to accelerate AI adoption among local ent

Oracle Cloud — Japan East (Tokyo)
Tokyo, Kanto, Japan
2019
Operational100 MW

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Japan East region in Tokyo is Oracle's primary cloud hub for the Japanese market. Japan is one of Oracle's largest enterprise markets globally, and the Tokyo region hosts Oracle Autonomous Database, OCI AI serv

Oracle Cloud — Japan East AI Region (Tokyo)
Tokyo, Kanto, Japan
2019
Operational100 MW

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Japan East region (Tokyo) is one of OCI's major APAC deployments, offering GPU-intensive compute for AI training and inference workloads. Oracle has aggressively expanded its Japan presence — announcing a $8 bi

Microsoft Azure — Korea Central Region (Seoul)
Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
2017
Operational200 MW

Microsoft Azure Korea Central — the Seoul region — is Microsoft's primary South Korean cloud and AI infrastructure hub, launched in 2017 alongside the paired Korea South (Busan) region. Operating facilities in the Seoul metropolitan area, i

Amazon Web Services — Seoul Region (AP Northeast 2)
Seoul, Seoul Capital Area, South Korea
2016
Operational250 MW

AWS's Seoul region (AP Northeast 2), launched in January 2016, is one of Amazon's fastest-growing cloud regions globally. South Korea's position as a semiconductor powerhouse — home to Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's largest memory chip m

Alibaba Cloud — Japan Region (Tokyo)
Tokyo, Kanto, Japan
2016
Operational80 MW

Alibaba Cloud's Japan region, operating from Tokyo since 2016, serves the company's Japanese enterprise customer base and acts as a gateway for Chinese companies doing AI business in Japan. The Japan region hosts Alibaba's AI Platform PAI (

Naver — Chuncheon Data Center (Gak)
Chuncheon, Gangwon, South Korea
2013
Operational100 MW

Naver's Gak data center in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, is South Korea's first and largest hyperscale data center operated by a domestic internet company. Opened in 2013, Gak serves as the primary training and inference site for HyperCLOVA

NAVER — Spring Cloud AI Data Center
Chuncheon, Gangwon, South Korea
2013
Operational100 MW

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 bui

Amazon Web Services — AP-NORTHEAST-1 Tokyo Region
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Operational500 MW

Amazon Web Services AP-NORTHEAST-1 — the Tokyo region — is AWS's flagship Asia-Pacific AI cloud region, launched in March 2011 and one of the largest and most sophisticated AWS deployments globally. Operating across four availability zones

SK Telecom — Ulsan AI Mega Campus
Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
Planned1.0 GW

SK Telecom’s Ulsan AI Mega Campus is a flagship 1 GW hyperscale project designed to anchor South Korea’s sovereign AI computing ambitions. Announced in early 2026, the facility is one of the most ambitious single-site AI data center announc

AirTrunk — TOK1 AI Expansion (Tokyo)
Inzai, Chiba, Japan
Under Construction300 MW

AirTrunk’s TOK1 campus in Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture — located in Tokyo’s eastern data center corridor — is undergoing a major 2026 expansion backed by a ¥180 billion (~$1.24 billion) green loan, the largest sustainability-linked data cen

Google — Changhua AI Data Center
Changhua City, Changhua County, Taiwan
Operational300 MW

Google’s Changhua campus is its largest data center in Asia, evolving into a critical hub for global AI operations. In 2024–2025, Google significantly expanded the site’s AI infrastructure, supported by a landmark 300 MW solar procurement d

SoftBank — Sakai AI Data Center
Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Under Construction150 MW

SoftBank is building a 150 MW AI data center at the former Sharp LCD factory site in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, with completion targeted for late 2026. The facility is purpose-built to host NVIDIA Blackwell GPU systems (DGX B200 and GB20

Nvidia & Foxconn — Kaohsiung AI Factory
Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Under Construction100 MW

The Nvidia-Foxconn AI Factory in Kaohsiung is Taiwan's largest advanced AI supercomputing center, scheduled to become operational in the first half of 2026. Representing a $1.4 billion investment, the facility is the first in Asia to deploy

AWS — Taipei AI Region
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Operational50 MW

The AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, officially launched in June 2025 and fully operational by 2026, represents a multi-billion dollar long-term investment in Taiwan’s digital economy. The region consists of three Availability Zones optimi

Naver — B200 4K AI Cluster
Sejong, Sejong, South Korea
Operational40 MW

Completed in January 2026, Naver’s "B200 4K Cluster" is the largest AI computing cluster in South Korea at launch, featuring 4,000 NVIDIA B200 Blackwell GPUs in a tightly integrated high-density cluster. Located within Naver’s "GAK Sejong"

Google — Taipei AI Engineering Hub
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Operational10 MW

In November 2025, Google inaugurated its largest AI infrastructure hardware engineering center outside the United States in Taipei. This flagship hub focuses on the design, testing, and optimization of custom AI accelerators (TPUs) and high