Nvidia / 29 September 2026

Samsung Adds $1 Billion to Nvidia Backed Helix

Six Samsung companies have committed a combined $1 billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure, the AI infrastructure platform founded by KKR with Nvidia, the Kuwait Investment Authority and US power company Vistra. Samsung Electronics will contribute $500 million; Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance will provide the other half. Helix and KKR say the investment takes committed capital supporting the platform above $11 billion, following its launch with more than $10 billion in June. The additional backing brings a major technology manufacturer and a group of construction, data center, battery and financial businesses into a venture intended to develop hyperscale computing sites with power and connectivity. Nvidia is a founding investor and strategic partner, giving it a direct interest in the platform’s ability to turn site plans into operating AI capacity.

Helix was set up as a single coordination point for large customers that need data centers, power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure, and fiber networks. It is led by Adam Selipsky, the former chief executive of Amazon Web Services, who said Samsung’s commitment “deepens the long-term capital base” of the platform. A large GPU installation depends on more than the availability of accelerators: grid access, backup power, cooling, construction and network connections have to line up with the system design. Helix’s model places those interdependent decisions within one infrastructure development platform. Vistra is its preferred power partner, and Samsung says Helix plans to obtain energy capacity through direct investment and partnerships with developers. Nvidia’s position as a cornerstone technology partner puts its full-stack computing designs close to those early facility choices.

The Samsung commitment also brings specific industrial capabilities. Samsung Electronics supplies semiconductors and, through its FläktGroup subsidiary, air and liquid cooling equipment for data centers. Samsung C&T builds major power and data center projects; Samsung SDS designs and operates data centers and has entered the GPU-as-a-service business. Samsung SDI makes uninterruptible power supplies and battery backup units. Samsung sees scope for these businesses to work with Helix across facility projects. For a platform that must deliver both computing space and the systems that keep it running, a partner spanning memory, construction, cooling and energy storage could reduce the need to assemble every element through unrelated suppliers. Its insurers and finance affiliates add another pool of long-duration capital alongside the industrial participants.

The capital increase follows a broader Nvidia effort to attract outside money to AI infrastructure. In August, the company announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR intended to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital over time. Helix is one concrete vehicle within that strategy: a company with founding investors, a management team and a mandate to build the physical assets hyperscalers require. Samsung’s commitment is a new injection into that vehicle, equivalent to about a tenth of its original committed capital. The venture still has to choose sites and secure customers, but the transaction expands the pool available to finance a coordinated data center and power buildout. It also links the Korean group’s component and construction businesses to Nvidia’s systems architecture.

Helix’s next value for Nvidia will come through the projects it wins and the computing designs customers select. A hyperscaler could use the platform to obtain power and facilities while choosing a mix of Nvidia and other hardware; Helix’s Nvidia relationship creates a route to Nvidia technology rather than an exclusive supply commitment. Samsung’s statement describes a global rollout and the possibility of cooperation across affiliates, with particular relevance to regions where electricity and construction schedules constrain new AI sites. The additional $1 billion makes the venture better capitalized to pursue such projects and brings suppliers that can address several practical bottlenecks at once. For Nvidia, that can shorten the distance between a customer’s demand for computing capacity and an investable, buildable facility suited to dense AI systems.