NVIDIA and NAVER have announced a strategic expansion of sovereign AI infrastructure in South Korea, leveraging the NVIDIA DSX platform to build gigawatt-scale AI factories. The initiative begins with a 55 megawatt expansion at NAVER’s GAK Sejong data center, with plans to scale operations significantly as demand for useful AI surges globally.
According to Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, useful AI has arrived, and the demand for AI factories is extraordinary. NAVER is constructing AI factory infrastructure to serve its companies, developers, and industries while helping Korea scale sovereign intelligence infrastructure for the agentic era. Haejin Lee, founder and chairman of NAVER, emphasized that the new infrastructure will allow customers to move from AI experimentation to production-scale AI factories that power models, agents, and real-world services.
The GAK Sejong data center in South Korea is designed for high-density NVIDIA accelerated computing, delivering resilient and energy-efficient operations with advanced automation, sustainability features, and robust disaster-response capabilities. This facility positions NAVER to support large-scale digital services and innovation across Korea and beyond.
NAVER is also expanding its AI cloud infrastructure in Europe and the Middle East, combining hyperscale data center capabilities with NVIDIA DSX to offer government and enterprise customers a trusted alternative for secure, high-performance digital services compliant with local regulatory and data-sovereignty requirements.
The partnership builds on previous collaborations between NVIDIA and NAVER in advancing sovereign and physical AI models in Korea. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models by fine-tuning the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra open model with proprietary data and training expertise, delivering a more capable and culturally fluent model for Korean and global enterprise customers.
NAVER is the first Korean company to participate in the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training, and reinforcement learning to accelerate global AI innovation. The company plans to launch an AI Agent Platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints.
Additionally, NAVER is developing a Seoul World Model using its proprietary urban street-view data and spatial modeling technology, building on NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models.
The NVIDIA DSX platform is purpose-built as an end-to-end, codesigned stack for AI factories, spanning chips, systems, software, facilities, and partner technologies to minimize token cost and speed time to first production. NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS software achieves the lowest token cost by maximizing token throughput per megawatt, while NVIDIA DSX OS provides the operating layer that enables providers to grow revenue and enhance margins through open source, modular software for lifecycle management, consistent runtime operations, health automation, resiliency, and multi-tenant AI factory management.
NAVER Corporation has been providing internet services and IT infrastructure since 1999, growing into one of Asia’s leading technology companies. With over two decades of operational excellence powering its own platforms and affiliates, NAVER delivers enterprise-grade digital solutions through NAVER Cloud Platform. NAVER is the world’s third company to develop a hyperscale Large Language Model, reflecting its deep investment in cutting-edge AI research and development.
NVIDIA, based in the United States, is the world leader in AI and accelerated computing. The collaboration represents a significant step forward in the deployment of sovereign AI infrastructure to serve enterprises, manufacturers, government organizations, and AI cloud customers globally.
