KOSDAQ-listed company Moa Life Plus announced on December 18 that it plans to complete the construction of its "IP-Protected Edge Cross Micro AI Data Center" within the year, based on its self-developed AI data server.
Typically, building an AI data center requires significant capital and a long period of infrastructure development. However, the Micro AI Data Center promoted by Moa Life Plus is designed to be installed quickly and at low cost within the premises of customers such as schools, local governments, public institutions, and general businesses. This allows public institutions and companies to protect their own data and core intellectual property (IP) on-site, while still being able to utilize information accumulated in large cloud AI models such as OpenAI and Gemini as learning resources.
The core of this project lies in clear division of roles. Large-scale clouds remain as vast repositories of knowledge, constantly evolving like an ocean, while the Micro AI Data Center acts as a "port" where only necessary information is selected, processed, and delivered rapidly to support actual economic activities. Moa Life Plus's Edge Cross architecture performs AI computation locally without transferring data externally. Instead, it connects to the global cloud in a one-way, non-storage manner, learning only from public AI models, the latest algorithms, and non-identifiable data flows. This approach avoids dependency on the cloud while keeping pace with technological advancements.
These Micro AI Data Centers are also evaluated as having significant growth potential, with the possibility of integration with Physical AI in the future. The Micro AI Data Center can evolve beyond digital AI, which simply analyzes data and generates reports, to a structure where AI decisions translate into actions in real-world spaces by linking with cameras, sensors, robots, drones, and automation equipment. This aligns with the trend of AI expanding from a "thinking system" to a "moving system."
Market forecasts support this outlook. According to global research agencies, the micro data center market is expected to grow from approximately USD 6 to 8 billion in 2024 to over USD 30 billion by the early 2030s. The edge AI market is also projected to see high annual growth rates of around 30 percent, and edge AI infrastructure combined with micro data centers is considered a core pillar of next-generation AI infrastructure. If Physical AI is included, the expansion market could reach hundreds of billions of dollars, encompassing smart cities, education, public safety, and industrial automation sectors.
This suggests a likely shift in AI infrastructure from a model where large clouds handle all computation to a division of labor, where small AI centers closer to the field absorb cloud knowledge and execute tasks. In particular, demand for Micro AI Data Centers is expected to rise rapidly among public institutions and small- to medium-sized enterprises that prioritize data sovereignty and cost predictability.
Moa Life Plus aims to lead this trend. The company is applying its high-trust data processing experience and security-focused system design capabilities, accumulated in the bio and healthcare sectors, to AI infrastructure. A company representative stated, "The competition in the AI data market is not about who owns the bigger ocean, but about who can build a port that accommodates more ships," adding, "We plan to soon release our new AI data server product and accelerate the rollout of a model that provides both digital AI and physical AI based on Micro AI Data Centers."
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