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Building a 2.4-gigawatt AI data-center campus in Donghae

South Korea's chip buildout is producing contracts on several fronts. On November 2, Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan said the three mega projects total 1,600 trillion won, about 60% of GDP in the year work starts, and promised faster permits to bring fab start-ups forward by more than two years. Samsung and SK Hynix have signed long-term memory supply deals with customers, and OpenAI's Sam Altman visited Seoul to talk with SK Group about HBM and data centers.

Updated Nov 2