(Feb 27): Hyundai Motor Co will invest nine trillion won (US$6.3 billion) to build an artificial intelligence data centre, robot factory and hydrogen plant in South Korea, as the automaker accelerates its push into into new technologies. The largest part of the investment will be a 5.8 trillion won AI data centre equipped with 50,000 GPUs to support autonomous vehicle development and robot learning, according to a statement from South Korea’s land ministry on Friday. A further one trillion won has been allocated to open a water electrolysis facility capable of producing 80 tonnes of green hydrogen a day, while 1.3 trillion won will be spent on a solar plant to power the AI and hydrogen initiatives. “The logistics and industrial robots to be mass-produced at this factory will be connected to the AI ​​data centre for constant learning,” Lee said at a ceremony for the investment agreement. “This area will be reborn as a future city where everyone conveniently uses robots in their daily lives.”

Source: The Edge Markets February 27, 2026 05:19 UTC