
Samsung Pledges $1B to KKR AI Infrastructure Vehicle Helix
Samsung Electronics and five affiliates inject $1 billion into KKR’s digital platform, lifting total capital past $11 billion.
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Samsung Electronics and five affiliates inject $1 billion into KKR’s digital platform, lifting total capital past $11 billion.

Singapore investment firm Shorea Capital will convert The Pemberton into residential units, while Amazon Data Services adds two Fanling sites.

Proceeds will primarily fund mechanical and electrical works at the 50-megawatt HKG10 facility in Tsuen Wan, scheduled to enter service in early 2028.

The US AI developer will anchor the 1.44-gigawatt Western Downs Digital Park backed by Singapore’s Zerra DC and Macquarie Capital.

The ChatGPT maker expects cumulative spending on computing capacity to reach $856 billion by 2030 as it seeks fresh funding at a $1.2 trillion valuation.

The package includes debt tranches of three to seven years in Singapore dollars and yen to acquire assets and refinance existing debt.

The search giant will expand its research and development footprint in Taiwan by 60 per cent to support a faster custom silicon release cadence.

The Chinese cloud giant is expanding its overseas computing footprint into Latin America to capture local artificial intelligence workloads.

Commerce Minister Jam Kamal Khan met with the Pakistan Digital Authority and Sky47 to draft a sovereign cloud roadmap for commercial data.
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