Samsung commits $1B to KKR’s Helix AI infrastructure company
Helix Digital Infrastructure and KKR said Monday that Samsung committed $1 billion to Helix, the AI infrastructure company formed to build data centers, power, and connectivity for hyperscalers — adding to more than $10 billion already committed by founding investors including KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA, and Vistra.
The AI buildout is now a problem of capital and power, as much as a problem of chips. Samsung is taking a seat next to NVIDIA and Vistra in Helix’s checkbook, so a company known for selling parts is also putting money into the buildings and the electricity.
On Monday, 28 September 2026, Helix Digital Infrastructure and KKR announced that Samsung committed $1 billion to Helix. The release went out on Business Wire. The open Financial Content copy of that wire is stamped 7:00 p.m. Eastern. Helix said the commitment is through its long-duration capital fund. Long-duration, here, means money meant to stay invested for years, not a short trade. Those lines are Helix and KKR’s, on the wire.
Helix said the commitment builds on more than $10 billion already committed at launch by founding investors including KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA, and Vistra. The Kuwait Investment Authority is KIA, Kuwait’s sovereign fund. More than $10 billion is the figure Helix prints for capital already committed to the strategy. The release does not print a price for Helix itself. It does not print a megawatt target, and it does not print a count of graphics chips.
Helix is an AI infrastructure company formed by KKR. The wire says it invests in and delivers data centers, power, connectivity, and related infrastructure for hyperscalers. A hyperscaler is one of the very large cloud companies that run AI at huge scale. The same release says Helix will seek to do that work in North America and worldwide. Helix is led by Adam Selipsky, former chief executive of Amazon Web Services. The wire calls him chief executive and co-founder. Those lines are on the wire.
Selipsky said Samsung’s commitment is “a strong vote of confidence in Helix’s strategy” and that it deepens the long-term capital base built to meet the scale of AI infrastructure demand. The same release says Helix expects to explore Samsung’s capabilities in advanced technology, construction, energy storage, and cooling, alongside NVIDIA’s expertise in full-stack technology and AI infrastructure and Vistra’s role in power. Full-stack, in that sentence, means the chips and the software around them. The quotation is Selipsky’s. The capabilities sentence is the Helix and KKR release.
Samsung’s newsroom, dated 29 September 2026 in Korea, names who is writing the check. Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance are investing a combined $1 billion. Samsung Electronics is investing $500 million. The five other affiliates invest the rest. Those splits are Samsung’s. Monday’s Helix and KKR wire states the $1 billion total. It does not print the $500 million line or the six-name list.
Samsung said Helix launched in June 2026. Samsung describes Helix as built to deliver integrated solutions across hyperscale data centers, power generation and transmission, and fiber networks. A fiber network is the glass cable that carries data between those sites. Samsung also says Selipsky leads Helix, and that KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA, and the U.S. power company Vistra are founding investors alongside Samsung. Those lines are Samsung’s.
In plain terms, Samsung is putting $1 billion into a company KKR formed to build the buildings, the power, and the connections AI companies need. This announcement is a capital commitment. It is not Samsung buying Helix. It is not Samsung buying graphics chips in this deal.
The picture is the Financial Content page that carries the Business Wire release. The headline reads that Samsung commits $1 billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure. Adam Selipsky’s opening quote is in the frame. A blue border frames the page. It is the wire. It is not a photograph of a data center.