SK Telecom plans to build a 2-gigawatt AI data center powered by NVIDIA's Vera Rubin chips and SK Hynix's HBM4 high-bandwidth memory, with the first facility due online in 2027. The initiative targets scaling to 5 GW by 2029 and 15 GW by 2035, positioning SK Group as a major AI infrastructure player.
A telecom carrier committing to 2GW of AI datacenter capacity with specific hardware signals a new hyperscaler-scale compute demand driver.