Samsung Group is putting $1 billion into Helix Digital Infrastructure, a U.S.-based artificial intelligence infrastructure company established by global investment firm KKR, as the Korean technology giant expands its push into the rapidly growing AI data center ecosystem.
The investment will be made by Samsung Electronics and five affiliates. 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 move gives Samsung a foothold across a broader part of the infrastructure needed to power the AI boom — extending beyond semiconductors into data centers, electricity, cooling systems, construction, batteries and connectivity.
Samsung Joins KKR, Nvidia and Other Helix Investors
Helix was launched in June by KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, Nvidia and U.S. power company Vistra, with more than $10 billion in committed long-term capital at launch.
The company is led by Adam Selipsky, the former CEO of Amazon Web Services, while Nvidia serves as a strategic partner and Vistra as Helix’s preferred power partner. Samsung’s investment will make its participating affiliates additional founding investors in the company.
Helix focuses on developing and operating hyperscale data centers as well as the power-generation, transmission, fiber and connectivity infrastructure required to support them.
That focus addresses one of the biggest challenges facing the expanding AI industry: building enough physical infrastructure and securing sufficient electricity to support increasingly powerful computing systems.
Samsung’s AI Strategy Goes Beyond Chips
Samsung already has businesses that can contribute to several parts of the AI infrastructure chain.
Its semiconductor division supplies advanced chips, while its device business has expanded into data center cooling through FläktGroup, the HVAC specialist Samsung acquired in 2025.
Samsung C&T brings construction and engineering capabilities for data centers and power facilities, while Samsung SDS operates in data center design, construction and management and has expanded into GPU-as-a-service.
Samsung SDI, meanwhile, plans to explore opportunities involving uninterruptible power supplies and battery backup systems, technologies designed to help maintain stable electricity for data centers.
The companies have not disclosed specific joint projects with Helix, but Samsung said they will explore opportunities spanning semiconductors, HVAC, construction, data center operations, power and batteries.
Why Power Is Becoming Critical to the AI Race
The investment comes as AI companies and cloud providers expand data center capacity worldwide.
Helix intends to invest not only in data centers but also in the power infrastructure needed to operate them. Its partnership with Vistra is intended to help secure electricity as power availability becomes an increasingly important consideration for large-scale AI projects.
Samsung’s $1 billion commitment therefore places the company inside a much wider AI infrastructure buildout, where success increasingly depends on more than computing chips alone.
Data centers need electricity, cooling, construction, connectivity and backup power — creating opportunities for companies capable of supplying several pieces of that infrastructure ecosystem.
Samsung said the investment is aimed at creating synergies between its affiliates’ technologies and businesses and Helix’s infrastructure platform.
The company is effectively expanding its AI footprint from the chips inside data centers to the infrastructure that keeps those facilities running.
With Samsung now joining KKR, Nvidia, Vistra and the Kuwait Investment Authority around Helix, the investment marks a significant expansion of Samsung’s involvement in the physical infrastructure behind the global AI boom.
And as AI demand continues pushing data centers toward unprecedented scale, Samsung’s next challenge may be turning that $1 billion commitment into a much broader role across the infrastructure powering the AI era.
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