AI NewsWaveVESSL AI Aims to Secure 200,000 GPUs by 2030
Key points
- VESSL AI to secure 200,000 GPUs by 2030
- Eight data center hubs nationwide by 2028
- Targets 10,000 GPUs this year and 50,000 in 2027
AI infrastructure company VESSL AI declared a transition to a neocloud company and said it will secure 200,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) in stages by 2030. VentureSquare reported that the company revealed the plan at its "2026 Neocloud Strategy Presentation."
According to VentureSquare, VESSL AI plans to set up AI data center hubs in eight locations nationwide by 2028 and increase its GPU holdings to 10,000 this year and 50,000 in 2027. Digital Daily reported that of the 200,000, 150,000 would be built directly, and that for the 2027 target of 50,000, customer demand is 30,000 or more, with overseas customers accounting for 70% to 80%.
Digital Daily reported the funding and power plans. The company is pursuing 400 billion won in GPU financing and plans to secure 500MW of data center capacity by 2028. Bloter reported that it aims to build an "AI factory" that operates GPUs together with domestic neural processing units (NPUs).
The company's name was written differently across outlets. Techworld News wrote it as "Vessel AI (VESSL AI)" in Korean phonetics, while the other outlets wrote VESSL AI.