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Nvidia, SK Group unveil $500 billion-plus AI data centers initiative, memory partnership

By Thomson Reuters Jul 24, 2026 | 6:59 PM

SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) – Nvidia and South Korea’s SK Group on Friday ​unveiled a more ‌than $500 billion AI initiative spanning large-scale AI data centers and next-generation memory, Nvidia said.

The initiative ‌includes ​a long-term ⁠partnership with SK ⁠Hynix to secure next-generation memory supply for Nvidia and jointly develop high-bandwidth memory ​for AI training, AI agents and physical AI ⁠applications.

As part of ⁠the initiative, SK ​Telecom plans to build a ​2-gigawatt AI data center powered ‌by Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips and SK Hynix’s HBM4 high-bandwidth memory, with the ⁠first facility due to come online in 2027, Nvidia added.

Separately, Nvidia ⁠said ‌it, Naver and ⁠Brookfield plan to ​expand ‌Naver’s AI data center ​in South ⁠Korea.

(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco and Heekyong Yang and Jack Kim in Seoul; Editing by ​Chris Reese)