32 H200 GPUs Coming to Myeongji-Noksan

Busan's manufacturing AI transformation is moving past the planning stage to power-on. The city has been selected as a finalist in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's 2026 Industrial Complex Edge AIDC Demonstration Pilot Project competition to build an 18.3 billion won shipbuilding and maritime edge AI data center in Myeongji-Noksan National Industrial Complex. The target is a beta opening in December this year.

The funding structure consists of 14 billion won in national funds, 2.1 billion won in municipal funds, and 2.2 billion won in private funds. The Korea Industrial Complex Corporation Busan Regional Headquarters will lead the project, with participation from Elice Group, Busan Techno Park, EG AI, Gunsolution, and Formit. After a 12-month construction period from July this year to June next year, mandatory operation will continue for five years.

The standout feature in the design is the chip configuration. It's a role-separation structure where Nvidia H200's 32 GPUs handle training and validation, while 168 domestic NPUs handle inference and continuous services. This is the first edge AI data center among industrial complexes nationwide to use both GPUs and domestic NPUs together, raising the domestic chip ratio to 84%. It's a demonstration stage where domestic AI semiconductors are deployed not in showcases but in continuous infrastructure next to factories.

Tenant companies will receive three types of manufacturing AI services. Smart factory, vision AI industrial safety, and digital twin predictive maintenance software will be provided sequentially, with usage fees set at up to 50% cheaper than commercial cloud. Myeongji-Noksan is a complex densely populated with shipbuilding equipment and machinery-metal companies, so the calculation is to provide shared access to computing infrastructure that individual companies cannot afford. Busan Mayor Jeon Jae-soo stated that the city will provide shared infrastructure for manufacturers lacking resources to experiment with and adopt AI without burden, and that Busan will present the nation's first model of manufacturing AI demonstration based on domestic AI semiconductors.

Busan's AI infrastructure now splits into two tracks. On the private side, a 19 trillion won large-scale AI data center project has launched, while on the public side, this 18.3 billion won edge center attaches to manufacturing sites. The scale differs by a hundredfold, but the latter arrives first for startups and factories. In December, tenant companies in Myeongji-Noksan will begin using H200 at half the cloud cost. Busan's plan is to create a model capable of self-sustaining operation even after the mandatory period ends and expand it to the southeastern region, Daebul, and Gunsan.