Snet Systems Expands Overseas Renewable Energy Infrastructure Business... Targets AI Data Center Market

Officials from Snet Systems and Emerson Korea exchange views. Photo courtesy of Snet Systems.

Snet Systems is seeking to enter the AI data center market, leveraging its domestic and international renewable energy plant projects. Having built expertise in industrial communications and security infrastructure connecting power generation and storage facilities, the company plans to expand its integrated infrastructure business spanning energy and data centers through cooperation with Emerson Korea, a global automation company.

Snet Systems, a company specializing in AI infrastructure and services, said on Nov. 9 that it had gained experience building industrial operational technology (OT) communications and security infrastructure by participating in large-scale renewable energy plant projects at home and abroad, while also establishing a foundation for global business.

As AI and automation technologies are introduced at energy plants, including solar and offshore wind facilities, operating methods centered on individual facilities are shifting to network-based integrated operating systems. Through related projects, Snet Systems has accumulated design experience based on IEC 61850, a global communications standard for industrial power equipment, and IEC 62443, a security standard for industrial control systems. The company said it had developed engineering capabilities spanning communications architecture, availability, security and operational visibility.

The company plans to extend this experience to AI data center (AIDC) projects in South Korea and abroad. It expects demand to grow for linking data centers with their own power generation facilities as securing a stable power supply becomes a key challenge in building data centers amid the spread of AI. The company aims to offer a differentiated business model by combining its existing AI and IT infrastructure capabilities with expertise in power equipment communications.

To this end, Snet Systems signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Emerson Korea on Oct. 21. The two companies agreed to identify joint business opportunities in three areas—renewable energy, AI data centers and industrial AI—and collaborate from proposals through implementation.

In energy plant projects, Emerson Korea will provide its Ovation™ control system for operating power generation and storage facilities, while Snet Systems will build the industrial networks and security infrastructure that connect the facilities. Snet Systems plans to use its own IMS (OT-NMS) solution to analyze and monitor industrial site networks in real time and improve operational visibility at plants.

In the AI data center sector, the companies will combine Emerson Korea's capabilities in energy plant and facility control with Snet Systems' IT and OT networking expertise. They plan to identify joint business opportunities to propose integrated power and operational infrastructure solutions from the design stage.

"In the AI era, the importance of power and energy infrastructure—which is essential to keeping computing infrastructure running without interruption—has never been greater," said Park Dongchan, an executive director at Snet Systems. "Building on the communications and security engineering capabilities we have demonstrated in overseas renewable energy plant projects, we will support the AI transformation (AX) of industrial operations and become an IT partner that leads a sustainable global AI data center ecosystem."

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