South Korea sizes AI power demand at 30 GW

South Korea’s energy minister says AI data centers and Samsung and SK Hynix chip expansion could add 25–30 GW to national power demand, Reuters reports via MarketScreener. Meeting the upper end with nuclear energy alone would equal about 20 Korean-designed reactors; data-center operators should treat generation and grid access as a siting constraint, not a later utility task, alongside the analysis of AI data-center power and household bills.