chip titan Nvidia on Monday announced a large-scale data centre construction project in South Korea with SK Telecom, among a raft of other business deals in the country.
Nvidia, the world's most valuable company, also said it would work with chipmaker SK hynix to develop the advanced memory components that help run AI systems and are currently in short supply.
The tie-ups were unveiled after CEO Jensen Huang spent the weekend eating barbecue in Seoul with the country's tech leaders and appearing on a popular TV show.
SK Telecom and Nvidia plan "to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea...
with the first AI factory planned to come online in 2027", a joint statement said.
The project "will support sovereign, physical and agentic AI services for enterprises and industries across Korea, with the vision to expand to greater Asia regions", it added.
No figure was given for how much the two companies will invest in the data centres.
SK Telecom operates under the same parent company, SK Group, as SK hynix, which on Monday announced a "multi-year technology partnership" for memory chips with Nvidia.
"The agreement supports supply for advanced memory, addressing the extended development cycles, advanced fabrication and capital investments to sustain the global buildout of AI factories," their statement said.
"Through this partnership, SK hynix will....
