Issue Governing AI power demand under carbon rules and Korea's AI-energy policy

Summary

The report observes that as international norms and policies for climate action and carbon neutrality tighten, the electricity use of data centres and AI infrastructure is becoming a major target of management and regulation. Korea's first policy direction is to extend industry AI transformation strategies into climate and energy and to launch a pan-ministerial AI transformation collaboration system. The second is to link AI data centre plans with renewable power plants to build a sustainable AI data centre ecosystem. The third is to expand investment in next-generation small modular reactors and fusion energy while drawing up a long-term strategy for securing electricity in the AI era. Together these measures treat energy supply as a binding constraint on the country's AI ambitions.