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GS Group is promoting its AI data center business and expanding cooperation with startups to create a technology ecosystem. GS Ventures has invested in startups in various fields, including power, semiconductors, cooling, and cloud.
GS Group has begun creating a gigawatt (GW)-level artificial intelligence (AI) data center technology ecosystem. The idea is to strengthen the competitiveness of the overall AI data center value chain by connecting the group's capabilities with the startup's innovative technology.
GS Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) of GS Group, announced on the 16th that it held the '2026 GS Ventures Tech Day' with the theme of AI data center at GS Tower in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 15th.
GS has been discovering and investing in startups in various fields, including power/energy, semiconductor/memory, cooling, and cloud, centered around GS Ventures.
At this event, held with the attendance of GS Chairman Heo Tae-soo and other key executives, a total of seven startups, including six portfolio companies invested by GS Ventures, introduced related technologies and sought opportunities for cooperation with group affiliates.
In the power field, solutions that increase the stability and energy efficiency of AI data center power supply and hydrogen fuel cell solutions for data centers were introduced.
In addition, CXL-based intelligent memory that alleviates data processing bottlenecks, a D2C liquid cooling solution that removes heat by directly contacting a cooling plate to a semiconductor, an immersion cooling system that cools the server by immersing it in an insulating coolant, a modular AI data center, and graphics processing unit (GPU) cloud technology specialized for AI calculation tasks were also introduced.
GS plans to review technology verification and business applicability through follow-up discussions.
GS is pursuing an AI data center project to respond to demand for AI infrastructure. The goal is to gradually complete a 1.2GW data center in Donghae City, Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province starting in 2028, and then add 1.2GW to expand the total to 2.4GW.
GS plans to support domestic startups to grow into globally competitive companies and thereby contribute to the growth of the AI โโdata center technology ecosystem.
Chairman Heo Tae-soo said, โStartupsโ innovative technologies can be a clue to solving the technical bottleneck of AI data centers,โ and added, โWe will expand the contact points between GS and startups and grow the domestic AI data center technology ecosystem together.โ
AI outlook โ possibilities, not facts
GS plans to build a 1.2GW data center in stages in Donghae-si, Gangwon-do starting in 2028.
Very likely ยท Within months
GS Ventures plans to review technology verification and business applicability through follow-up discussions with invested startups.
Likely ยท Within weeks

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