NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield have announced a proposed expansion of Korea's sovereign AI factory infrastructure, with planned investments that will grow the initial NVIDIA DSX AI factory deployment from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts by 2028. NVIDIA plans to invest $1 billion into NAVER, while Brookfield has entered into a nonbinding term sheet to fund up to $9 billion for the project .
NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield plan to expand Korea's AI factory from 55MW to 200MW by 2028 at NAVER's GAK Sejong data center.
NVIDIA will invest $1 billion in NAVER; Brookfield will provide up to $9 billion in financing.
NAVER intends to scale its NVIDIA AI infrastructure deployment to 1 gigawatt long-term.
The expanded AI factory will feature NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms, providing production-scale AI compute for Korea- and U.S.-based innovators.
NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models based on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra open models and is the first Korean company to join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition.
NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in H2 2026 using NVIDIA Agent Toolkit.
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 .
"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 .
"AI factories are the infrastructure nations need to compete and innovate in the intelligence era," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Together, NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield are building sovereign AI infrastructure at the scale needed to fuel Korea's startups and industries. This is how nations and companies are building their futures in the age of AI" .
The 200-megawatt AI factory is expected to feature advanced NVIDIA AI infrastructure including the NVIDIA Vera Rubin and NVIDIA Blackwell platforms. It intends to provide the compute, software and support needed to develop and deploy competitive AI models and applications at scale. As an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, NAVER provides deep expertise in operating hyperscale infrastructure powered by the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform .
Today's proposed expansion builds on the June announcement in which NAVER committed to extending its GAK Sejong data center with NVIDIA DSX, with a long-term path to gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure to serve Korea's enterprises, industries, government organizations and global AI cloud customers .
Brookfield has established one of the industry's leading AI infrastructure investment platforms, with approximately $100 billion of assets under management across the AI infrastructure value chain including data centers, compute, semiconductor manufacturing and dedicated power generation . Brookfield has been an active, long-term investor in Korea since establishing a presence in the country in 2014 and currently manages approximately $12 billion of assets across infrastructure, real estate and energy .
The expanded infrastructure builds on NAVER and NVIDIA's collaboration on open model development for agentic and physical AI. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models to be based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra open models with its proprietary data and training expertise. NAVER is also the first Korean company to join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning .
NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software including NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints. NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary urban street-view and spatial modeling data, built on NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models .
About NAVER
Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea's largest Internet company and one of the world's top tech companies. Leading cutting-edge technologies, NAVER operates the No.1 search engine in Korea and holds various business portfolios encompassing commerce, fintech, cloud, AI and robotics .
About Brookfield
Brookfield is a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management that owns and operates real assets and essential service businesses that form the backbone of the global economy. We invest on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit—sectors critical to supporting economic growth and productivity .
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA is the world leader in AI and accelerated computing .
