# NAVER Partners with Brookfield and NVIDIA to Expand Korea's National AI Factory Infrastructure Buildout

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- Published: 2026-07-25T15:58:00+07:00
- Author: PR Newswire

SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NAVER, Brookfield and NVIDIA announced
an expansion of Korea’s sovereign AI factory infrastructure. New investments will
increase the initial NVIDIA DSX™ AI factory deployment from 55 megawatts to 200 
megawatts.

Announced during Korea President Jae Myung Lee’s AI Summit visit to San Francisco,
the planned 200-megawatt expansion will be built with the NVIDIA DSX platform at
NAVER’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in Sejong, South Korea. The expanded infrastructure
will provide Korea- and U.S.- based AI innovators with access to production-scale
AI compute for building next-generation models, agents and AI-powered services.

Under the terms of the agreements, Brookfield will fund up to $9 billion as the 
exclusive capital partner, NVIDIA will invest $1 billion and NAVER will fund the
remaining amount to finance the $10 billion project.

This builds on NAVER’s June announcement to extend its GAK Sejong data center with
NVIDIA DSX, with a long-term path to gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure 
serving Korea’s enterprises, industries, government organizations and global AI 
cloud customers. Combining Brookfield’s capital with NVIDIA’s computing platform,
the investment supports NAVER’s AI factory deployment.

"NVIDIA’s strategic investment and our infrastructure supply agreement with Brookfield
have propelled NAVER’s vision for the AI Factory business into a robust execution
phase," said Haejin Lee, Founder and Chairman of NAVER. "Leveraging the solid partnerships
with our global partners, we will drive technological innovation, foster a sovereign
AI ecosystem, and spearhead efforts to strengthen South Korea’s AI competitiveness."

**AI Factory Expansion and Open Model Collaboration to Fuel AI Innovators **

NAVER, as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, provides deep expertise in operating hyperscale
infrastructure powered by the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform. The 200-megawatt AI
factory, featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms, will establish a dedicated
resource pool for emerging AI companies, providing the compute, software and support
needed to develop and deploy competitive AI models and applications at scale.

This expanded infrastructure also builds on NAVER and NVIDIA’s collaboration on 
open model development for agentic and physical AI. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA
X models to be based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra open models with its proprietary
data and training expertise. NAVER is also the first Korean company to join the 
NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining,
post-training and reinforcement learning.

NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in the second half of the year,
powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software including NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints. 
NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary urban street-view
and spatial modeling data, built on NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models.

**About NAVER**

Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea’s largest Internet company and one of the world’s
top tech companies. Leading cutting-edge technologies, NAVER operates the No.1 search
engine in Korea and holds various business portfolios encompassing commerce, fintech,
cloud, AI and robotics.

NAVER recorded sales of KRW 12.04 trillion (USD 8.18 billion) in 2025. TEAM NAVER
continues to enhance its business portfolio and expand its global presence across
Japan, North America, and Europe, while pursuing innovation through continuous research
and development in future technologies.

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