The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and the Ministry of Local weather, Power and Surroundings (MCEE) introduced on Nov. 21 that they held a vice-ministerial coverage assembly for AI transformation cooperation.
MSIT Second Vice Minister Ryu Je-myung and MCEE Second Vice Minister Lee Ho-hyeon performed in-depth discussions on AI and energy-related coverage cooperation measures, together with local weather change response and carbon neutrality realization using AI, in addition to the development and growth of AI information facilities. Whereas deeply acknowledging that energy provide is a vital factor for securing AI trade competitiveness, they exchanged opinions on associated coverage duties together with selling the relocation of AI information facilities to non-metropolitan areas, activating distributed power particular zones, reviewing instructions for information middle energy demand, enhancing power-related rules, and international cooperation.
Vice Minister Ryu talked about that AI has established itself as a core factor of nationwide competitiveness and emphasised that each ministries will work as one crew to make sure AI infrastructure could be constructed in a well timed method, and can present all mandatory assist in order that AI can contribute to carbon neutrality. Vice Minister Lee emphasised that whereas pursuing power transition in step with the worldwide pattern of carbon supply discount, each ministries will make each coverage effort by means of cooperation to allow steady energy provide in response to elevated energy demand from AI information facilities and different services.
Each ministries determined to advertise coverage cooperation by means of numerous communication channels from working-level to vice-ministerial ranges and plan to collectively set up an AI and energy-related public-private activity pressure (TF) inside the close to future. As Korea has not too long ago accelerated AI infrastructure funding, together with securing 260,000 NVIDIA graphics processing models (GPUs), the necessity to reply to quickly rising energy demand can be rising.
