Samsung Group to Invest $1 Billion in Helix AI Infrastructure Venture

Samsung Group will invest a combined $1 billion in U.S.-based Helix Digital Infrastructure, expanding the Korean conglomerate’s exposure to the fast-growing market for the physical systems that support artificial intelligence computing.

Six Samsung affiliates will take part in the investment. 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 together. Samsung did not disclose how that second half would be divided among the five companies.

The transaction will place the Samsung affiliates alongside KKR, Nvidia, U.S. power producer Vistra and the Kuwait Investment Authority as founding investors in Helix. The infrastructure company was launched in June with more than $10 billion in committed long-term capital and is led by Adam Selipsky, a former chief executive of Amazon Web Services. Nvidia serves as a strategic partner, while Vistra is the company’s preferred power partner.

Helix is focused on the infrastructure required to operate large-scale AI systems, including data centers, electricity supply and cooling. Those areas have become increasingly important as the spread of generative AI drives demand for computing capacity. Reliable power availability, in particular, has emerged as a major constraint on the construction and operation of new AI facilities. Helix plans to address that bottleneck through direct investment and its partnership with Vistra.

Samsung said the investment would allow its affiliates to seek business and technology synergies with Helix. The participating companies span semiconductors and electronics, construction and trading, information technology services, batteries and financial services, giving the group several potential points of connection with a large infrastructure platform.

For Samsung Electronics, which is making half of the total investment, the deal also deepens its participation in an AI ecosystem that depends on advanced chips, storage, networking and data-center capacity. The broader group’s involvement indicates that Samsung sees AI infrastructure not only as a technology opportunity but also as a long-term industrial and investment theme.

The investment comes as technology companies and financial investors are committing substantial capital to secure the energy and facilities needed for AI development. By joining Helix at the founding-investor stage, Samsung is positioning multiple affiliates to participate in projects intended to relieve those constraints and to build commercial ties with major global partners already involved in the venture.