Samsung is committing $1 billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure, expanding its role in AI infrastructure beyond semiconductors and hardware. Samsung Electronics will contribute $500 million, while Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance will provide the remaining $500 million. The investment gives Samsung exposure to a platform designed to combine data centers, electricity infrastructure and connectivity under one strategy.

Helix launched in June 2026 under global investment firm KKR and targets infrastructure needed by hyperscalers facing rapidly rising AI workloads. Its platform spans hyperscale data center development and operations, power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and fiber-optic networks. Helix says the model can help hyperscalers secure large-scale infrastructure across several interdependent layers rather than assembling each component separately. More than $10 billion had already been committed to the Helix strategy by its founding investors before Samsung’s investment.

Helix Targets AI’s Infrastructure Bottleneck

Adam Selipsky, the former CEO of Amazon Web Services, leads Helix as CEO and co-founder. The company is building a management team with expertise across the data center and power industries, while KKR contributes the resources of its global infrastructure business. KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA and US power company Vistra were among Helix’s founding investors. Vistra has been identified as Helix’s preferred power partner as the company focuses on securing electricity capacity alongside compute infrastructure.

AI data centers are increasingly becoming platforms for multiple businesses, including GPU-as-a-Service, sovereign AI and colocation. That shift is creating demand across power generation, cooling, semiconductors, networking and financing, turning AI infrastructure into a much broader industrial market. Consequently, securing electricity can matter as much to deployment timelines as securing land, servers or cooling equipment. Helix is positioning its model around that constraint through direct investments and partnerships with energy developers, including Vistra.

“As AI services integrate deeper into daily life and global industries, the need for data centers capable of processing massive compute workloads and the specialized power infrastructure required to run them stably is growing exponentially. If data centers are the production hubs of the AI era, power is the fuel that drives them. Consequently, the ability to secure both compute and power infrastructure simultaneously has emerged as a defining competitive advantage in the AI industry.”

Samsung Builds Across the AI Stack

Samsung’s investment brings together capabilities that already span several parts of the infrastructure chain. Its Device Solutions division supplies semiconductor technologies, while the Device eXperience division provides data center cooling systems through FläktGroup, the HVAC specialist Samsung acquired in 2025. FläktGroup offers air-cooling systems and coolant distribution units for liquid cooling, supported by 14 production sites and a supply and service network covering 65 countries. 

Samsung C&T’s Engineering & Construction Group brings engineering, procurement and construction capabilities to large-scale data center and power projects. Samsung SDS designs, builds and operates data centers and has expanded into GPU-as-a-Service, while applying its data center efficiency capabilities to its own facilities and the Korea AI Computing Center. The company says it has the lowest power usage effectiveness level in Korea, a claim presented by Samsung as part of its infrastructure credentials.

Samsung SDI adds another layer through uninterruptible power supplies and battery backup units designed to support continuous data center operations. The battery business gives Samsung exposure to the power-resilience requirements created by high-performance computing environments that need stable operation around the clock. The company plans to explore additional opportunities where ultra-high-output and high-capacity batteries can support data center infrastructure.

Samsung Moves Toward Infrastructure Ownership

The investment gives Samsung a vehicle to combine semiconductors, construction, cooling, IT services and energy storage around AI infrastructure deployment. Rather than limiting its exposure to individual components, the group can participate across multiple stages of the infrastructure lifecycle through Helix. Meanwhile, the partnership connects those capabilities with KKR’s infrastructure platform and the energy expertise of Helix’s investor network.

Samsung said the investment will accelerate global AI data center deployment through Helix while creating collaborative opportunities among its participating affiliates. The strategy reflects a market where compute availability increasingly depends on power, cooling, connectivity and construction moving on coordinated timelines. For Samsung, Helix creates a route from supplying the machinery of AI to participating in the infrastructure systems that determine where and how that machinery operates.