Elice and SKT Sign MOU to Jointly Develop Next-Generation AI DC and Solutions

Collaboration to jointly build AI data center infrastructure and jointly develop solutions

Elice, Inc. (CEO Kim Jae-Won), an AI education solution company, and SK Telecom (CEO Yoo Young-young) signed a business agreement on ‘AI data center technology cooperation and business joint promotion’ at MWC 2025 in Barcelona, Spain.

Based on the Elice AI PMDC, a modular data center, Elice, Inc. has built an AI-specific cloud infrastructure and systematically provides AI services for AI education and research.

In particular, in February, Elice AI PMDC became the first AI PMDC in Korea to obtain the Cloud Security Assurance Program (CSAP) IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), which is a requirement to provide safe and reliable cloud services to governments and public institutions. CSAP is a security certification system that private companies must obtain in order to provide cloud services to government and public organizations, and requires a rigorous audit process. Elice has proven the high stability of its self-built cloud environment by obtaining the SaaS standard grade for Elice LXP in 2024 and now the IaaS certification.

SKT is strengthening its business capabilities in the AI data center total solution market. Its strategy is to accelerate the construction of the ‘AI Infra Super Highway’ by upgrading to a comprehensive solution business that meets the needs of various types of AI data centers.

Plan to utilize Elice AI PMDC to agilely respond to the growing demand for AI

SKT decided to collaborate with Elice because it can independently develop AI services and cloud software, as well as small-scale AI data center infrastructure and hardware. With this agreement, the two companies will strengthen their cooperation by jointly building AI data center infrastructure and jointly developing solutions.

First, they plan to discuss a business structure that will enable customers who want to apply AI services to industrial sites quickly and with less cost burden. We will create a PMDC testbed that combines the two companies’ AI data center technologies so that customers can quickly start their business with the Elice AI PMDC and expand the scale of the facility by adding larger capacity AI data centers in parallel to meet growing demand.

Creating synergy through technology cooperation related to data center and infrastructure from a sovereign AI perspective

In addition, the two companies plan to create synergies through technology collaboration and contribute to the growth of the domestic AI ecosystem from the perspective of ‘sovereign AI’, where the importance of national data and infrastructure is emphasized by each country.

“We will lead the next-generation AI infrastructure market through the collaboration of differentiated Elice AI PMDC technology and SKT’s AI DC solution,” said Jae-Won Kim, CEO of Elice.

“By leveraging the strength of our modular approach, we plan to speed up the spread of AI data centers and technological innovation, and create business models that can meet the needs of diverse customers,” said Yoo Sang-young, CEO of SK Telecom.