{"id":49607,"date":"2026-06-11T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/49607\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:18:39","slug":"sk-telecom-to-build-ai-cloud-in-korea-with-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/49607\/","title":{"rendered":"SK Telecom to build AI cloud in Korea with NVIDIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"single-excerpt\">The first AI factory is planned for 2027 as part of a gigawatt-scale infrastructure project for training and inference.<\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA and SK Telecom announced that SK Telecom plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea using the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/data-center\/products\/dsx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NVIDIA DSX platform<\/a>, with the first AI factory coming online in 2027.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/nvidia-sk-telecom-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148741\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>An AI Cloud is large-scale AI infrastructure comprised of AI factories that manufacture tokens, building blocks of intelligence, from data. Unlike conventional large-scale providers offering general-purpose cloud services, AI Clouds specialize in GPU-based cloud computing tailored specifically for AI workloads across training, inference and agentic AI.<\/p>\n<p>SK Telecom\u2019s AI Cloud will be built on the NVIDIA DSX full-stack reference architecture of software, hardware and operations producing the lowest-cost tokens at maximum energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>SK Telecom\u2019s AI Cloud will power training, inference and agentic workloads including sovereign, physical and enterprise AI services for companies and industries across Korea, with the vision to expand to greater Asia regions.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative reflects Korea\u2019s role as one of the world\u2019s most advanced pro-AI industrial economies. Korean companies lead in telecommunications, memory, semiconductors, manufacturing, robotics, mobility and consumer technology \u2014 industries where AI is moving from research labs and chatbots into secure, production-grade deployments.<\/p>\n<p>SK Telecom AI cloud to scale agentic and physical AI for industries and enterprises<\/p>\n<p>The new SK Telecom AI Cloud is designed to serve rising demand for AI infrastructure, as accelerated AI computing growth continues to increase.<\/p>\n<p>The new infrastructure builds on SK Telecom\u2019s leadership in physical AI and agentic AI development. At GTC Taipei last week, SK Telecom announced its latest work in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/3077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">applying digital twins to SK hynix semiconductor fabs<\/a>\u00a0using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/omniverse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NVIDIA Omniverse<\/a> libraries, optimizing the technology for complex, large-scale manufacturing environments.<\/p>\n<p>In April, SK Telecom revealed that it has adopted open source\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/topics\/ai\/nemotron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NVIDIA Nemotron<\/a> datasets to train the A.X K1 model as part of the Korea government\u2019s Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, as part of this collaboration, SKT will become an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, joining a global program through which participants use NVIDIA\u2019s latest AI infrastructure, software and developer ecosystem to deliver excellent AI performance and economics through AI cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA DSX platform delivers rapid design, ultraefficient operations<\/p>\n<p>The NVIDIA DSX platform is engineered from the ground up with extreme codesign for AI factories, built and operated to drive lowest token cost and accelerate time to first production across NVIDIA chips, systems, software, facilities and partner technologies.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA and SK Group to pursue joint research for next-gen AI infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA and SK Group announced plans to pursue joint research to codevelop next-generation AI factory architecture, extending their collaboration beyond infrastructure deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The companies will focus on silicon-to-grid innovation across accelerated computing, memory technologies and data center operations. NVIDIA and SK Group companies including SKT will also explore projects for full-stack AI factory optimization to drive more efficient, scalable and resilient AI services.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">nvidia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first AI factory is planned for 2027 as part of a gigawatt-scale infrastructure project for training and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[7343,2295,26945,241,240,1364],"class_list":["post-49607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk","tag-ai-cloud","tag-nvidia","tag-nvidia-dsx-platform","tag-sk","tag-sk-group","tag-sk-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49607","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=49607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}