Korea's AI ambitions run into power problem

South Korea's bid to stay competitive in artificial intelligence is running into a constraint that cannot be solved by chips alone: electricity.

As the US and China pour hundreds of billions of dollars into AI infrastructure, experts say Korea's biggest challenge is no longer securing Nvidia GPUs but ensuring it has enough power, grid capacity and suitable sites to run the data centers those chips require.

The pressure is mounting as the world's largest economies accelerate investment in AI infr ...