Minister Bae Gyeong-hoon of the Ministry of Science and ICT speaks during the “On-site Meeting on Securing Advanced GPUs and Building an AI Highway” held at the Kakao Data Center in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, on the 29th. 2025.08.29 [Ansan=Newsis]
Naver Cloud, Samsung SDS, and Ellice Group have been selected as participating companies in a graphics processing unit (GPU) procurement project worth approximately KRW 2.08 trillion this year.
The Ministry of Science and ICT on the 8th announced the results of the operator selection for the “Advanced GPU Procurement, Construction, and Operation Support Project.” The call for project operators ran from March 12 to April 13, and five cloud companies, including KT Cloud and Coupang, participated in the bidding. After reviewing document eligibility and assessing business capabilities, the ministry conducted on-site inspections of data center server space, electrical facilities, and network security, along with a review of project costs, before finalizing the three companies.
The GPUs to be secured by the three companies are 2,016 units of Nvidia’s next-generation high-performance model “Vera Rubin” and 7,688 units of “Blackwell 300 (B300).” Of these, 2,016 Vera Rubin units and 4,360 B300 units will be used for the development of proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models, among other purposes.
Jeon Hye-jin
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