Microsoft to invest 9 billion dollars in South Korea to build data center

Phoenix Technology News Beijing Time February 13, according to South Korean media reports, Microsoft plans to invest 9 billion U.S. dollars in South Korea to build a new data center. It will be the largest investment by global technology companies in South Korea so far. Microsoft's South Korean company said in Wednesday that it would build a 330,000-square-metre data center in South Korea. Although the specific investment has not yet been determined, Microsoft is expected to invest more than 10 trillion won on the project, which is about $9 billion trillion. Given the size and investment of the project, Microsoft's new data center is likely to be the largest in Asia. It will be twice times the size of the data center Google plans to build in Taiwan. The new data center will provide backup services for Microsoft data in Asia and other parts of the world. Microsoft has reportedly sent people to South Korea to investigate the site, and is likely to build the data center in Busan, the southernmost port city of South Korea. Microsoft's decision to build the data center in South Korea may have taken into account the country's excellent maintenance and maintenance labor, low frequency of natural disasters and cheap electricity. (Compiling/Xiao Yu)