# NAVER expands AI infrastructure with NVIDIA to gigawatt scale at GAK Sejong

> South Korea's NAVER is making one of the region's bigger sovereign-AI bets, expanding its GAK Sejong data center from 55 megawatts toward gigawatt scale on Nvidia's DSX platform. The capacity ramps in stages, with 55MW arriving in 2027, another 100MW overseas the same year, and 200MW by 2028, all designed for high-density accelerated computing with heavy automation. The point of all this power is to train and run NAVER's next-generation HyperCLOVA X models and its Seoul World Model, the foundation for the agentic services the company wants to offer. Sovereign AI is the operative idea here: rather than lean entirely on American cloud providers, NAVER and partners across the Korean government and industry are building homegrown infrastructure they control. It is a pattern showing up in country after country, from the Gulf to Korea to India, as governments and national champions decide that depending on someone else's data centers for a strategic technology is a risk worth spending billions to avoid. NAVER's expansion is a concrete marker of how far that thinking has moved from slideware to steel, concrete and a great deal of electricity.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: NVIDIA Newsroom · Published Saturday, July 18, 2026_

## Wortins' read

South Korea's NAVER is making one of the region's bigger sovereign-AI bets, expanding its GAK Sejong data center from 55 megawatts toward gigawatt scale on Nvidia's DSX platform. The capacity ramps in stages, with 55MW arriving in 2027, another 100MW overseas the same year, and 200MW by 2028, all designed for high-density accelerated computing with heavy automation. The point of all this power is to train and run NAVER's next-generation HyperCLOVA X models and its Seoul World Model, the foundation for the agentic services the company wants to offer. Sovereign AI is the operative idea here: rather than lean entirely on American cloud providers, NAVER and partners across the Korean government and industry are building homegrown infrastructure they control. It is a pattern showing up in country after country, from the Gulf to Korea to India, as governments and national champions decide that depending on someone else's data centers for a strategic technology is a risk worth spending billions to avoid. NAVER's expansion is a concrete marker of how far that thinking has moved from slideware to steel, concrete and a great deal of electricity.

## Source

[Read the full story at NVIDIA Newsroom](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/naver-ai-infrastructure)

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