Nvidia announces data centre construction project with SK Telecom in South Korea and multi-year memory chip partnership with SK hynix

Nvidia and SK Telecom plan to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea, with the first AI factory planned to come online in 2027. SK hynix announced a multi-year technology partnership with Nvidia to co-develop advanced memory components for AI systems.

The SK Telecom–Nvidia project will support sovereign, physical and agentic AI services (AI that makes decisions and performs tasks independently) for enterprises and industries across Korea, with plans to expand to greater Asia regions. SK hynix will diversify into new markets Nvidia is creating, spanning AI infrastructure, personal AI and physical AI.

The announcements were made after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spent the weekend in South Korea meeting with tech leaders. No investment figure was disclosed for the data centre project.