SK Telecom teams up with NVIDIA to launch AI data center in South Korea by 2027

South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom announced it will build an AI data center using NVIDIA's AI factory platform DSX, targeting operations in South Korea by 2027. The facility will start with Blackwell GPUs for AI training and inference, then move to the Vera Rubin platform, aiming to scale AI cloud services to gigawatt levels.

SK Telecom plans to expand its AI infrastructure across Asia, positioning itself as a key partner in NVIDIA's Asian AI network to become a leading AI cloud provider in the region. Beyond data centers, the two companies are also collaborating on robotics simulation and training platforms.