Macquarie Asset Management and South Korea’s IT company Gabia Inc. are partnering to develop a hyperscale data centre platform in South Korea, committing approximately 600 billion won (about $420 million) over the next four to six years.
The investment will be made through Macquarie Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Fund 4, with the platform targeting more than 100 megawatts (MW) of data centre capacity across key metropolitan and regional locations nationwide, according to a release.
The partnership’s first project will be the 40 MW Ansan Data Center, set to serve as a critical AI infrastructure hub for the Seoul metropolitan area. The facility will complement Gabia’s recently completed Gwacheon data centre, which has been optimised for GPU-intensive and high-density workloads.
Under the joint venture, the fund will lead asset management and financing activities, including site acquisition, permitting and project financing. Gabia, supported by its subsidiary KINX, will oversee end-to-end service operations, including data centre design, network buildout, operations and maintenance, and customer acquisition.
KINX, South Korea’s only neutral Internet Exchange operator, brings strong connectivity capabilities to the platform. By leveraging KINX’s infrastructure, the venture aims to deliver optimised multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments for tenants, enhancing performance, reliability and interconnection.
Macquarie’s asset management arm has invested in digital infrastructure globally for more than 25 years, with a portfolio spanning hyperscale, colocation and interconnection platforms across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The firm exited AirTrunk in 2024 in what was then the largest global data centre transaction, followed by the sale of Aligned Data Centers in 2025, which became the largest-ever data centre deal globally at the time.
