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title: "Hyundai Motor Group to invest $6.3 billion in AI data centre, robot factory in South Korea"
description: "Hyundai Motor Group has signed a deal to invest approximately $6.3 billion (9 trillion won) in South Korea to establish an AI data center, a robot manufacturing factory, and other developments. The in"
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published_at: "2026-02-27T02:21:00.000Z"
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# Hyundai Motor Group to invest $6.3 billion in AI data centre, robot factory in South Korea

> Hyundai Motor Group has signed a deal to invest approximately $6.3 billion (9 trillion won) in South Korea to establish an AI data center, a robot manufacturing factory, and other developments. The investment includes 5.8 trillion won for the AI data center, 400 billion won for the robot factory, 1 trillion won for hydrogen production facilities, and 1.3 trillion won for solar generation. This initiative is part of a larger national land reclamation project aimed at boosting industrial growth in the region.

SEOUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Group and South Korea on Friday signed a deal to invest about 9 trillion won ($6.26 billion) to build an AI data centre, a robot manufacturing factory and other developments in the country's western coastal region, the land ministry said.

Here are some details\* Hyundai Motor Group to invest about 5.8 trillion won to build an AI data centre, which will deploy 50,000 graphics processing units, the ministry said.

\* Group will spend 400 billion won on a factory to produce robots including wearable ones.\* Group will invest 1 trillion won in hydrogen production facilites, another 1.3 trillion won in solar generation.

\* Saemangeum is a massive national land reclamation project that began more than 20 years ago on the country's west coast, partly to secure farmland and later to bring industrial clusters to a region that had long been considered a disadvantaged.

\* The Jeolla provinces where the area is located has been a traditional support base for the country's political liberals, including South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's Democratic Party.

(Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin and Jack Kim Editing by Ed Davies)

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