South Korea plans to spend about KRW 4 trillion next year to purchase 10,000 of Nvidia’s latest Vera Rubin GPUs, according to Odaily. The chips are intended to support the expansion of public-facing services such as a nationwide AI initiative and to help build out national AI infrastructure.
The Ministry of Science and ICT plans to extend its project for strengthening the foundation for AI computing resource utilization, with all GPUs introduced next year set to use the Vera Rubin platform. Under the program, private-sector companies including cloud service providers that run data centers would handle the full process covering GPU procurement, construction, and service operations, with funding coming from the government budget.
Over the past two years, the South Korean government has secured more than 30,000 GPUs through this project and related measures, supplying them to both public and private sectors. The input states that compared with the previous-generation Blackwell architecture, Vera Rubin can deliver up to six times higher training performance and more than eight times better inference performance. A ministry official said the GPU acquisition plan and budget size have not been finalized, while industry sources pointed to limited spare data center capacity and said securing large-scale new resources before next year would not be easy.
South Korea plans to allocate about KRW 4 trillion next year to purchase 10,000 of Nvidia’s latest Vera Rubin GPUs, according to Odaily, as the government moves to expand public-facing services including a nationwide AI initiative and to build national AI infrastructure.
The Ministry of Science and ICT is preparing to extend its project aimed at strengthening the foundation for AI computing resource utilization. Under that plan, all GPUs brought in next year would be configured as Vera Rubin units.
The program is set up so that private-sector companies, including cloud service providers operating data centers, would take charge of the full chain of GPU procurement, construction, and service delivery. Funding would come from the government budget.
Over the past two years, the South Korean government has secured more than 30,000 GPUs through this project and related channels, and has provided those resources to both public and private-sector users.
The input states that Vera Rubin offers up to 6x higher training performance and more than 8x better inference performance than the previous-generation Blackwell architecture.
A Ministry of Science and ICT official said the GPU acquisition plan and the size of the budget have not yet been finalized. Industry sources also said spare data center space is currently limited, making it difficult to secure large-scale additional resources before next year. The government is evaluating several alternative options.
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