SK Telecom and VAST Power Sovereign AI

VAST Data collaborates with SK Telecom to optimize large-scale GPU cluster

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Industry

Telecommunications

Use Case

Artificial Intelligence
SK Telecom

SKT Sovereign AI Cloud

SK Telecom

Overview

SKT is South Korea’s leading telecommunications provider, ranked #1,185 on Forbes' 2025 Global 2000 list, and is transforming itself into an AI company.

Solutions

SKT deployed the VAST AI Operating System (AI OS) on its new sovereign GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), which utilizes the latest NVIDIA B200 GPUs.

Results

SKT’s Petasus AI Cloud uses VAST’s disaggregated, shared-everything (DASE) platform on NVIDIA HGX creating a secure, high-throughput, multi-tenant environment that supports scalable AI training.

  • GPU environments provision in just 5–10 minutes

  • Sovereign-grade infrastructure control

  • Multi-tenant AI services