Samsung said on 29 September that it will invest a combined $1bn in Helix Digital Infrastructure. Samsung Electronics puts in $500m; five affiliates — Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance — make up the rest.
Helix launched in June 2026 under Adam Selipsky, formerly chief executive of Amazon Web Services. Its proposition is that the hard part of an AI build-out is no longer the chips but everything around them. It offers hyperscale data centre development and operations, power generation from baseload and flexible sources, transmission and distribution, and fibre networks as a single package, so that — in Samsung’s words — hyperscalers can rapidly secure the large-scale infrastructure they need.
The founding investor list says something about who believes that: KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA and the US power company Vistra are all in alongside Samsung. Samsung’s own contributions are spread across its divisions — semiconductors, data centre cooling, construction, data centre operations and GPU-as-a-service, and batteries for uninterruptible power — which makes this as much a route to market as a financial stake.
Samsung does not say what stake the money buys, and names no locations for Helix’s data centres. The announcement is on its newsroom.