SK Telecom plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea using the Nvidia DSX full-stack reference architecture of software, hardware and operations. The operator expects its first AI factory will come online in 2027.
"Through our close partnership with NVIDIA, we have now secured full-stack AI infrastructure capabilities, from chips to data center operations," said Chey Tae-won, Chairman of SK Group. “We will work with NVIDIA to tackle GPU, memory and energy challenges and become a leading AI factory player shaping Asia’s AI ecosystem.”
The new SK Telecom AI Cloud is designed to serve rising demand for AI infrastructure, as accelerated AI computing growth continues to increase. SK Telecom’s AI Cloud will power training, inference and agentic workloads including sovereign, physical and enterprise AI services for companies and industries across Korea, with the vision to expand to greater Asia regions.
NVIDIA and SK Group will also pursue joint research to codevelop next-generation AI factory architecture, focusing on silicon-to-grid innovation across accelerated computing, memory technologies and data center operations.
Read the full press release here.
SK Telecom is also working to build its own AI stack alongside Arm and Rebellions. You can read about that here.