Samsung affiliates commit $1 billion to KKR-backed Helix

Samsung Electronics and five affiliates announced a combined $1 billion investment in Helix Digital Infrastructure, an AI infrastructure company established by KKR. Samsung Electronics will invest $500 million, while Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance will provide the other $500 million collectively.

Samsung presented the financing as a way to expand its role across more of the AI infrastructure stack. Samsung said its participating businesses bring capabilities in semiconductors, data-center cooling, engineering and construction, data-center design and operations, GPU-as-a-service, uninterruptible power supplies and battery backup systems. The company said it aims to use that reach to speed Helix’s global data-center deployment and pursue collaboration among the investors; those benefits remain planned rather than realized.

KKR launched Helix in June 2026 with more than $10 billion in long-duration capital commitments. Its founding investors included KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, Nvidia and Vistra. Nvidia serves as a strategic partner and Vistra as Helix’s preferred power provider. A separate NVIDIA and Australian partners’ AI-factory capacity plan provides context on another Nvidia-linked infrastructure initiative but is not part of the Helix transaction.

Helix is led by co-founder and CEO Adam Selipsky, the former CEO of Amazon Web Services. The company says it is designed to coordinate financing, development and operations across hyperscale data centers, baseload and flexible power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure, fiber and connectivity.

Power is central to the companies’ stated expansion plan. Helix says it intends to invest in and manage the assets needed for AI deployments, while Samsung says Helix plans to secure energy capacity through direct investments and partnerships that include Vistra. The announcements do not identify a specific project that will receive Samsung’s capital or establish a deployment timetable.

The companies did not disclose how the five affiliates other than Samsung Electronics will divide their collective $500 million contribution. They also did not disclose Samsung’s ownership percentage, Helix’s valuation, detailed transaction terms, closing conditions, a closing date or the geographic allocation of the investment.