NAVER, NVIDIA (NVDA) and Brookfield announced a proposed expansion of Korea’s sovereign AI factory infrastructure, with planned investments that will grow the initial NVIDIA DSX AI factory deployment to 200 megawatts. NAVER intends to expand its deployment of NVIDIA AI infrastructure to 1 gigawatt. Announced during Korea President Jae Myung Lee’s AI Summit visit to San Francisco, the planned 200-megawatt expansion marks a significant acceleration of Korea’s national AI ambitions. The expanded infrastructure will be built with the NVIDIA DSX platform at NAVER’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in Sejong, South Korea. NVIDIA plans to invest $1B into NAVER. Brookfield has entered into a nonbinding term sheet to fund up to $9B. NAVER will fund the remaining amounts to finance the project. NVIDIA’s planned investment is subject to customary closing conditions and NAVER finalizing at least $9B of committed financing for the project, separate from NVIDIA’s planned investment. The expanded infrastructure will provide Korea- and U.S.-based AI innovators with access to production-scale AI compute for building next-generation models, agents and AI-powered services.
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