Aiming To Make S Korea AI Data Centre Hub: SK Telecom CEO

Seoul: SK Telecom, the telecommunications arm of SK Group, will push to create an artificial intelligence (AI) data center hub for the Asia-Pacific region in South Korea, its chief executive officer (CEO) Ryu Young-sang said on Monday.

Ryu outlined the vision, dubbed the "AI infrastructure superhighway," centred on creating comprehensive AI infrastructure integrating AI data centres, graphic processing units as a service (GPUaaS) and edge AI.

"SK Telecom is working to build the AI infrastructure superhighway to help South Korea make a leap and become one of three global leaders in AI," Ryu said at a Seoul conference, named SK AI Summit, reports Yonhap news agency.