{"id":100640,"date":"2026-07-27T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/100640\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:47:06","slug":"brookfield-to-commit-up-to-9-billion-to-expand-south-korean-ai-data-centre-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/100640\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookfield to commit up to $9 billion to expand South Korean AI data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Brookfield Asset Management plans to invest up to US$9 billion in AI infrastructure as part of a partnership with Nvidia to expand a data centre in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As part of the deal, Nvidia would invest US$1 billion into South Korean internet company Naver Corp., which will fund the remaining amounts to finance the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The expanded infrastructure will be built with Nvidia\u2019s DSX platform at Naver\u2019s GAK Sejong hyperscale data centre in Sejong, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release, Brookfield touts its AI infrastructure investment platforms as industry-leading, managing approximately US$100 billion of assets such as data centres, semiconductor manufacturing and dedicated power generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sikander Rashid, the private equity firm\u2019s global head of AI infrastructure, says the partnership will combine Brookfield\u2019s global AI infrastructure investment capabilities, Naver\u2019s AI and data centre operating expertise, and Nvidia\u2019s accelerated computing platform to advance the country\u2019s AI capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jensen Huang, Nvidia\u2019s founder and CEO, says the trio is \u201cbuilding sovereign AI infrastructure at the scale needed to fuel Korea\u2019s startups and industries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Brookfield Asset Management plans to invest up to US$9 billion in AI infrastructure as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[623],"tags":[78,2448,2333,657,414],"class_list":["post-100640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-naver","tag-business","tag-construction","tag-finance","tag-naver","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}