Samsung Six Companies to Invest USD 1 Billion in U.S. AI Infrastructure Firm Helix
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Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance said they will invest a total of USD 1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure.
Samsung Electronics will invest USD 500 million, and the other five companies will invest a combined USD 500 million.
Helix is an AI infrastructure company established by KKR, with a goal of providing integrated hyperscale data center development and operations, as well as power, transmission and distribution, optical communications network, and network infrastructure.
Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance said on the 29th that the six Samsung affiliates will invest a total of USD 1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, a U.S. AI infrastructure company. Samsung Electronics will invest USD 500 million, and the other five companies will invest a combined USD 500 million.
Helix Digital Infrastructure is an AI infrastructure company established by U.S. global investment firm KKR, and announced its launch in June. Helix aims to provide integrated AI-related infrastructure, including hyperscale data center development and operations, power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and optical communications and network infrastructure.
Helix is led by Adam Selipsky. Adam Selipsky previously served as CEO of AWS.
Helix's management team is made up of experts from the data center and power industries. Helix can draw on the capabilities of more than 170 KKR infrastructure specialists.
The Samsung affiliates joined Helix as founding investors. Other participants include KKR, Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), Nvidia, and Vistra. Through this investment, Samsung plans to engage in cooperation to secure key infrastructure such as data centers and power, with the aim of responding to surging AI computing demand.
AI data centers are expanding into core platforms that can support a wide range of business models, including GPU cloud services (GPUaaS), sovereign AI, and colocation. As a result, data center buildout is also increasing. At the same time, a new AI infrastructure ecosystem is taking shape that spans power, cooling, semiconductors, and finance.
As large-scale computing demand at AI data centers grows, securing stable power has emerged as a key challenge. Helix includes data centers in its investment targets, and is also investing in power generation infrastructure as well as transmission and distribution infrastructure. It also plans to secure power through a partnership with Vistra, a U.S. power company.
Samsung believes that the AI infrastructure capabilities held by its affiliates can be linked with Helix. The group companies each possess expertise in semiconductors, cooling, construction, and operations, and the plan is to divide roles based on those strengths.
Samsung Electronics' DS division supplies advanced semiconductor products and supports global AI infrastructure buildout. Samsung Electronics' DX division owns FläktGroup, a subsidiary specializing in data center HVAC systems, and FläktGroup was acquired in 2025.
Samsung Electronics' DX division supplies data center cooling products and solutions through FläktGroup. The supply range extends from air-cooling products to cooling distribution units (CDU) for liquid cooling. FläktGroup has 14 production sites worldwide and a supply and service network across 65 countries.
Samsung C&T's construction division is advancing large-scale infrastructure projects as an EPC contractor in the data center buildout and power generation sectors. Samsung SDS is engaged in data center design, build, and operations, and is expanding into GPUaaS. Samsung SDS has also secured PUE technology, which is being applied to its own data centers and to the national AI computing center project.
Samsung SDI has expertise in UPS and BBU technologies for 24/7 operation of high-performance servers, and plans to expand business opportunities in the data center power backup market based on that capability.
Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance are also participating in this investment, laying the groundwork to extend the AI infrastructure capabilities of Samsung affiliates into the financial sector.
Through this investment, the Samsung affiliates plan to cooperate with Helix and global partners. The cooperation will be pursued by linking each affiliate's capabilities in semiconductors, cooling, power, data center buildout, and operations, and is expected to contribute to the smooth supply of AI data center infrastructure while expanding cooperation opportunities in the global AI infrastructure market.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Kyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407452
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