KT Cloud will supply AI data center (AIDC) infrastructure exceeding 1 GW (gigawatt) at more than 20 locations by 2031. In the cloud business, it will support consistent operation across multiple clouds and expand into a platform connecting data, computing resources, and AI models.
KT Cloud held 'KT Cloud Summit 2026' on the 15th at Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, to unveil this business strategy. The event was attended by over 1,500 participants, including public institutional investors, corporate representatives, and experts in data centers, cloud, and AI fields.
AIDC expansion will focus on customer-customized hubs in the metropolitan area and globally linked hubs in non-metropolitan regions, organized by region. The company plans to propose scale and location tailored to customer demand and attract demand from big tech firms and specialized AI computing cloud providers such as Neocloud.
Choi Ok-jin, Head of KT Cloud's Data Center Division, announced plans to demonstrate and commercialize next-generation technologies including liquid cooling and ultra-high-density power, and to introduce AI-based operational automation. The company will strengthen fault prevention and disaster recovery systems using digital twins and robots, while accelerating infrastructure development through collaboration with OCP (Open Compute Project) open standards and construction and investment partners.
KT also presented a strategy to connect regionally distributed AIDCs using its communication network. By leveraging ultra-low-latency backbone networks, the plan supports large-scale data transmission between centers, enabling multiple AIDCs to be utilized as a single infrastructure.
KT Cloud will jointly develop next-generation modular AIDCs with SGC. This combines SGC's power and energy infrastructure capabilities with KT Cloud's data center design, construction, and operation expertise. The approach uses standard designs and parallel construction methods to reduce build time and allows infrastructure expansion according to demand.
In the cloud sector, KT Cloud will integrate multi- and hybrid-cloud operating environments centered on its self-developed 'kt cloud PLATFORM'. Gong Yoon-jun, Head of KT Cloud's Cloud Division, stated that a 'Single Cloud Experience' providing consistent operational experiences by linking portals, permissions, and policies across various clouds will be completed by early 2027.
Subsequently, the company plans to expand from 'Composite Cloud', where cloud resources are selected and combined according to business-specific requirements in security, performance, cost, and data, to 'Composite AI'. The goal is to connect data and computing resources such as GPUs and NPUs, AI models, applications, and agents into a single execution system.
As an example of public sector application, Gyeongbuk Province's AX (AI Transformation) plan was introduced. Kim Min-seok, Director of Gyeongbuk Provincial Office Jeong Chaek (Head), announced that 65.5% of the province's information systems will be integrated and converted to cloud, and a public-private collaborative 'Gyeongbuk AI·CDC' will be established. Based on this, AI will be introduced into four major public services: policy decision-making, administration, disaster management, and caregiving.
During the event, 20 presentation sessions and partner exhibitions were held on AIDC and cloud topics. Technologies such as D2C cooling that directly cools semiconductor chips, disaster recovery, and cloud-native solutions were shared, along with construction and operational case studies.
Kim Bong-gyun, CEO of KT Cloud, said, "We will combine KT Group's AX core infrastructure and partners' specialized technologies with our accumulated cloud and AIDC technology and operational experience." He added, "We will support customers from strategy formulation to infrastructure construction, operation, and enhancement, ensuring that AX leads to tangible business results."
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