On the 13th, Naver announced that it will build a next-generation AI data center in Morocco in collaboration with NVIDIA, Nexus Core Systems, a specialist in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, and the global investment firm Lloyd Capital.
The consortium aims to provide sovereign AI computing services across the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region and will begin phase one of the construction in the fourth quarter.
This project maximizes the geographical advantages of Morocco, located just 15 kilometers from Europe and directly connected by multiple undersea fiber-optic cables. The goal is to establish a 500-megawatt (MW) renewable energy-based data center in Morocco, which has high competitiveness in terms of power and operational expenses, to provide a more cost-effective and reliable AI infrastructure to the European market.
Initially, a 40 MW AI supercomputing infrastructure equipped with NVIDIA's latest Blackwell (GB200) GPU will be established this year, with plans for gradual expansion up to 500 MW. To this end, the consortium has signed a strategic renewable energy supply contract with the energy company TAQA.
Naver Cloud will participate as the platform operator for the data center in collaboration with Nexus Core Systems and Lloyd Capital.