Tech giants NAVER, NVIDIA and Brookfield have unveiled a major proposal to expand South Korea’s sovereign AI factory capacity, announced during South Korean President Jae Myung Lee’s visit to the AI Summit in San Francisco, California, US. The initiative scales up NAVER’s existing multi-tenant NVIDIA DSX AI factory buildout at the GAK Sejong hyperscale data centre, expanding the original 55MW site nearly fourfold to reach 200MW by 2028. This aligns with NAVER’s long-term objective of securing 1 gigawatt of sovereign AI computing capacity. NVIDIA intends to inject one billion US dollars directly into NAVER Corp as a strategic equity investment, while Brookfield has executed a nonbinding term sheet to provide project funding of up to nine billion US dollars. NAVER will supply the remaining capital. NVIDIA’s investment depends on NAVER finalising at least nine billion US dollars in binding project financing. The expansion will add 145MW of power capacity, representing a 263.64% increase, and will deploy NVIDIA’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin platforms. The coalition aims to establish an end-to-end, cost-optimised sovereign AI factory framework for enterprise, industrial and public sector clients.