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NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield to Expand Korea’s National AI Factory Infrastructure Buildout
Planned Investments to Scale NAVER’s Initial Multi-Tenant NVIDIA DSX AI Factory to 200 Megawatts by 2028, Fueling Next Generation of Korea and US AI Innovators NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield today announced a proposed expansion of Korea's sovereign AI factory infrastructure. News Summary: NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield plan to invest in gigawatt-scale, multi-tenant AI cloud infrastructure to power the next generation of AI companies in Korea and the U.S.NAVER and NVIDIA
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Planned Investments to Scale NAVER's Initial Multi-Tenant NVIDIA DSX AI Factory to 200 Megawatts by 2028, Fueling Next Generation of Korea and US AI Innovators NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield News Summary: SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AI Summit -- NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield today 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 — more than tripling the 55-megawatt buildout announced last month. 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 $1 billion into NAVER Corp. Brookfield has entered into a nonbinding term sheet to fund up to $9 billion. 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 $9 billion 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. "NVIDIA's planned strategic investment and our infrastructure supply agreement with Brookfield have propelled NAVER's vision for the AI factory business into a robust execution phase," said Haejin Lee, founder and chairman of NAVER. "Leveraging the solid partnerships with our global partners, we will drive technological innovation, foster a sovereign AI ecosystem and spearhead efforts to strengthen South Korea's AI competitiveness." "The partnership will combine Brookfield's global AI infrastructure investment capabilities, NAVER's full-stack AI and data center operating expertise, and NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform to advance Korea's AI capabilities," said Sikander Rashid, global head of AI infrastructure at Brookfield. "As AI adoption accelerates across the global economy, access to trusted, sovereign and scalable AI infrastructure is becomi...