Alibaba Group’s AI infrastructure and intelligence provider, Alibaba Cloud, has announced the launch of its third data center in South Korea, expanding its footprint as part of a US$ 53 billion AI and cloud infrastructure commitment.
Since establishing its first data center in the South Korean market in 2022, Alibaba Cloud has established a total of three data facilities in the country. Like its wider network, this new data center will adhere to local regulatory frameworks and cybersecurity, resilience, and data governance standards per a press release.
Alibaba Cloud didn’t disclose the total capacity of the new data center, which has been confirmed to be located in Seoul, where its other facilities are situated.
“South Korea is a key market where Alibaba Cloud has continued to make long-term investments,” said Yongjoon Yoon, South Korea Country Manager Alibaba Cloud Intelligence. “The third data center is not merely an infrastructure expansion. It is an investment to help South Korean enterprises operate AI and cloud-based services more reliably. Alibaba Cloud will continue to support the digital transformation of South Korean businesses with robust, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure and AI services.”
With this third site opening just over a year after its second, Alibaba Cloud now offers a service-level agreement of 99.99 percent for South Korea, up from the 99.95 percent it had before this launch.
“In the existing two data centers, if they fail in one place, all workloads can be operated in another place, exposing them to danger,” Yoon said during a press briefing, as reported by Maeil Business. “Now, even if one fails, the other two data centers operate the workload stably.”
Alibaba Cloud says that this third data center will serve as a means to strengthen its infrastructure foundation supporting South Korean businesses running AI and cloud-based services. To that end, the company will use the launch as a way to expand its agentic AI service offerings and assists businesses with managing the full lifecycle of AI agents, from development, testing and deployment to operations and security management. Yoon noted that South Korean data would never leave the country without customer consent.
The company now has 104 availability zones across 30 regions having recently expanded its cloud infrastructure in France, Malaysia, and Mexico as w.media has previously reported.
In 2025, the data center market in South Korea was valued at US$ 5.04 billion. While Arizton Advisory and Intelligence forecasted in January 2026 that the market would reach a value of US$ 16.23 billion by 2031, the South Korean government announced major investments into digital infrastructure back in June. Three megaprojects have been announced including the launch of AI data centers backed by an expected US$ 644.9 billion investment through 2035.