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SK Group AI infrastructure expansion and restructuring

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SK Group AI infrastructure expansion and restructuring

SK Group is restructuring its operations to expand advancing its artificial intelligence infrastructure capabilities. strategy through major financial and structural reorganizations. SK Telecom and SK Broadband have approved the spin-off of their AI data center business and submarine cable businesses into a new entity named SK Horizon. To fund this expansion, SK Telecom secured a approximately KRW 3.08 trillion ($2.23 billion) investment from a consortium including KKR, IMM Investment, in investment. This includes 1.2 trillion won in new shares to expand infrastructure and Stonebridge Capital. Following 1.88 trillion won from the transaction, sale of existing shares. SK Telecom will maintain a 51 percent stake and management control, while KKR will hold 29 percent and the IMM-Stonebridge consortium will hold 20 percent. SK Horizon will manage eight existing data centers in locations such as Seocho, Ilsan, Bundang, Gasan, Centum, Yangju, and Pangyo, alongside facilities under construction in Ulsan and Guro, totaling 318 megawatts of capacity. The new entity While management asserts the spin-off will also oversee submarine cable infrastructure. Under this structure, improve SK Telecom will direct overall AI Broadband’s financial health by transferring data center strategy and global partnerships, while center-related debt to the new entity, the SK Hyper, Broadband labor union has raised concerns. The union is demanding that a subsidiary established portion of the 1.88 trillion won from share sales be reinvested into SK Broadband to ensure competitiveness in July, will focus on developing gigawatt-scale projects. AI transformation and media services, while also calling for compensation for affected employees. In a parallel move, SK Ecoplant announced the absorption merger of is absorbing its subsidiary, SK Ecoengineering. This integration is intended aims to combine plant design and engineering with construction and project management, strengthening the group’s ability management to manage the full lifecycle of semiconductor factories and AI data centers.

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  1. 2026-09-09 00:56 UTC SK Group AI infrastructure expansion and restructuring
  2. 2026-08-28 01:58 UTC SK Group AI infrastructure expansion
  3. 2026-08-27 10:53 UTC SK Group AI infrastructure expansion

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