Alibaba Cloud Opens Third Korea Data Center, Launches Agentic AI Services

Alibaba Cloud is expanding its overseas infrastructure as South Korea becomes an increasingly important market for serving Northeast Asian companies and cross-border customers. Its third data center in the country forms part of parent Alibaba Group’s $53 billion investment plan for artificial intelligence and cloud computing, underscoring intensifying competition to supply computing capacity, data-localization options and enterprise AI tools.

The company said its third South Korean data center has officially come online and unveiled six Agentic AI services aimed at helping enterprises develop and operate AI agents. The launch marks the latest implementation of Alibaba’s $53 billion spending program and broadens its local infrastructure footprint. Alibaba Cloud did not disclose the facility’s added capacity or a specific commissioning date in the information provided.