A big data center planned in South Korea could be built and run by AI

WALL STREET JOURNAL

In South Korea, a $35 billion facility under development could be the world’s first large-scale data center designed, built and run by artificial intelligence.

The investor group behind the project, Stock Farm Road, has partnered with Stanford University-backed AI developer Voltai to make AI the architect, manager and operator of the South Korea-based data center. That would mark the first time that AI is integrated into a data center’s entire system, the companies said.

Under the partnership, dubbed “Project Concord,” AI will take charge of the data center’s design, construction and operation, from efficiently managing the use of resources like power and water to adapting quickly to different AI computing workloads. Humans will be involved, but only as supervisors, with AI acting as the decision-maker, the firms said.

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