{"id":109667,"date":"2025-10-29T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109667\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:13:08","slug":"amazon-to-invest-another-5-billion-in-south-korea-data-centers-in-ai-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109667\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to Invest Another $5 Billion in South Korea Data Centers in AI Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AMZN:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Amazon.com Inc.<\/a> is setting aside another $5 billion for investment in South Korean data centers, sharply ramping up the spending it\u2019s already devoting toward building AI infrastructure in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The capital will go toward erecting several data centers in the years to 2031, South Korea\u2019s presidential office said in a statement after a meeting between Amazon Web Services chief Matt Garman and President Lee Jae Myung. The spending comes on top of more than $4 billion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/SY59KZDWLU68\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs- whitespace-normal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-component=\"link\">envisionedBloomberg Terminal<\/a> investment with partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/034730:KS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SK Group<\/a> announced in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon.com Inc. is setting aside another $5 billion for investment in South Korean data centers, sharply ramping up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,21199,1671,218,219,576,61,4082,60,66715,39523,1672,1678,541,80],"class_list":["post-109667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asia","tag-ie","tag-infrastructure","tag-ireland","tag-matt-garman","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-oracle-corp","tag-south-korea","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}