[Week Pick Cloud] Government to Establish AIDC 'Grid-Code' This Year; Fire Agency to Inspect 163 DC Facilities
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The government has opened the "AI Data Center Research Group" to address the growing burden on power grids from the spread of AIDC and has begun discussions on establishing Grid-Code standards within this year.
The research group is expected to review connection guidelines and PUE standards tailored to MW-level power fluctuations every 0.001 second and GW-level large-scale power consumption.
The National Fire Agency will conduct fire safety inspections at 163 public and private data centers nationwide, while Anthropic is pushing ahead with a 6-year lease of a U.S. data center and securing 460 megawatts (MW).
The government has begun discussions on establishing related standards to respond to the strain on power grids caused by the spread of AIDC. The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment held a meeting of the "AI Data Center Research Group," which aims to ease grid shocks from the rapid growth of AIDC and build a stable power supply system. The government has started work on drawing up a "Grid-Code" standard for responding to the increase in AIDC by the end of this year.
The background for forming this research group is the need to address AIDC's unique power consumption patterns. AIDC shows power-consumption characteristics in which MW-level fluctuations occur every 0.001 second, and it also involves GW-level large-scale power consumption. The research group is moving toward building a response framework tailored to power fluctuations on a shorter-than-second timescale and to large-scale usage.
Separately, the National Fire Agency conducted a comprehensive safety inspection of 163 public and private facilities nationwide for the purpose of preventing DC fires. This is part of data center safety checks.
Competition to secure AI infrastructure continues overseas. In global market trends, efforts are under way to secure massive AI computing infrastructure through cooperation among Anthropic, Nscale, and Google.
The government plans to establish the technical minimum requirements for grid connection, known as "Grid-Code (Grid-Code)," within this year, and it intends to reflect the specific characteristics of the domestic power system in the standard.
The government is discussing customized connection strategies and systems within a scope that does not infringe on the functions of supporting equipment such as ESS and UPS for protecting sensitive power equipment such as GPU, with the aim of contributing to stabilization of the power system.
To this end, the research group plans to conduct a detailed analysis of AIDC equipment configurations and a detailed analysis of AIDC power demand patterns, and it will also review standards for power usage effectiveness (PUE), an indicator of IT equipment energy efficiency. Based on this, the group plans to derive connection guidelines optimized for grid conditions.
Separately, the National Fire Agency will conduct fire safety inspections from September 1 to October 30 at 163 public and private data centers nationwide. The targets include 65 public institutions and 98 private facilities, and the inspection is intended to prevent in advance public and information and communications service disruptions caused by accidents such as the fire at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon.
The inspection will be led by provincial and city fire safety inspection teams, with battery experts and related organizations participating jointly. The main inspection targets are the safety of 24-hour operating computing and electrical equipment, as well as the safety of battery racks used to supply emergency power. The detailed inspection items include flooding and leakage, temperature management at storage sites, the operating status of battery management systems (BMS), and damage to distribution panels and wiring cables.
In addition, inspectors will check whether major fire-fighting facilities such as sprinklers and automatic fire detection systems are operating properly, and they will also examine the physical separation of computer rooms, battery rooms, and UPS rooms, as well as the management of fire compartments. The purpose of this inspection is to block the risk of fire spread.
The National Fire Agency plans to provide immediate on-site safety consulting for risk factors and to take administrative measures, including fines, in cases of legal violations. It also plans to use the inspection results as reference material for future improvements to fire safety management policies.
Separately, Anthropic has decided to lease a U.S. data center for 6 years to respond to expanding AI demand. The lessor is the U.K. neo-cloud company Nscale, and the leased assets are Nscale's U.S. data centers. The lease is worth about USD 45 billion, or about KRW 62.3 trillion.
The facility is based on processors equipped with Nvidia's next-generation AI platform "Vera Rubin," and it is scheduled to begin operations in the second half of next year. The computing capacity targeted for operation is 460 megawatts (MW).
Nscale is building a 1.35-gigawatt (GW) data center and a 2GW private natural gas power plant in Mason County, West Virginia, with a total investment of USD 69 billion. Anthropic has also agreed to lease Google's proprietary AI chips for a dedicated data center installation, with the leasing scale totaling USD 150 billion, or about KRW 207.7 trillion, or more. Anthropic recently signed a computing contract with Amazon and also signed a computing contract with SpaceX, and while it is in negotiations with Meta, it is expanding its efforts to secure large-scale multi-cloud AI infrastructure across global big tech companies.
Source: IT DAILY · Kwon Young-seok
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