SK Telecom Launches AI Cloud Project in South Korea

SK Telecom plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea using the NVIDIA DSX platform, with the first AI factory scheduled to come online in 2027. The AI Cloud will support sovereign, physical and agentic AI services for enterprises and industries across Korea. It will be built on the NVIDIA DSX full-stack reference architecture of software, hardware and operations.

NVIDIA DSX aims to improve time to production and token performance per megawatt. NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS software delivers the lowest token cost by maximizing token performance per megawatt. NVIDIA DSX OS is the operating layer that helps providers increase revenue and improve margins with open source, modular software for lifecycle management, runtime consistency, health automation, resiliency and multi-tenant AI factory operations.

NVIDIA and SK Group are planning to expand their collaboration from AI infrastructure deployments to joint research on next-generation AI factory architectures. The joint research will focus on silicon-to-grid innovation across accelerated computing, memory technologies and data center operations.

NVIDIA and SK Group companies including SK Telecom will explore projects for full-stack AI factory optimization.

SK Telecom will become an NVIDIA Cloud Partner. The AI Cloud has a vision to expand to greater Asia regions. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: "Telecom networks are becoming national AI infrastructure.

They connect people, companies, devices and machines - and now they can become the backbone of new AI clouds. " Chey Tae-won, Chairman of SK Group, said: "Through our close partnership with NVIDIA, we have now secured full-stack AI infrastructure capabilities, from chips to data center operations.