📢 LG is expanding its strategic partnership with 마이크로소프트 across the AI value chain, spanning next-generation AI data centers, Physical AI, and AI transformation.
On September 21st (local time), LG and Microsoft held a top management meeting at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where Koo Kwang-mo, Chairman and CEO of LG Corp., and Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, along with other senior executives, agreed to establish a strategic partnership.
The meeting was attended by key LG executives, including Kwon Bong-seok, COO of LG Corp.; Jae-cheol Lyu, CEO of LG Electronics; Hong Bum-shik, CEO of LG Uplus; Hyun Shin-gyoon, CEO of LG CNS; and Chung Sue-hyun, President of LG Sciencepark. Their participation reflects LG’s “One LG” approach to maximizing synergies with Microsoft across future AI businesses.
During the meeting, LG and Microsoft discussed three opportunities to further expand their strategic collaboration and help advance the AI ecosystem.
In AI data center infrastructure, the companies will explore business opportunities for LG to supply cooling, power, and infrastructure solutions in support of Microsoft’s global data center expansion. In the near term, the companies will explore opportunities to supply high-capacity cooling solutions for AI data center projects at key strategic locations. Over the mid- to long-term, the partnership will include opportunities for prefabricated data centers that can be rapidly deployed and scaled.
The two companies will also accelerate partnership on AI Transformation. As part of LG’s efforts to become an AI-native organization, LG plans to transform its work environment by leveraging Microsoft’s AI and cloud platforms, including Microsoft 365 E7: The Frontier Suite including Copilot, for its entire knowledge workforce globally. LG will focus on designing optimized work environments from the perspectives of security, cost, and operations, while establishing new ways of working powered by AI.
The companies will also expand partnering in Physical AI. LG plans to fully leverage Microsoft’s high-performance cloud infrastructure to accelerate the development and training of AI models for physical environments, including manufacturing, logistics, and mobility. The two companies will also leverage their respective infrastructure and platforms to build a “Data Flywheel” that enables a continuous cycle of collecting manufacturing data and training AI models, further strengthening LG’s Physical AI capabilities.
The partnership builds on strategic discussions that began at a technology showcase held at Microsoft headquarters last December and has since been further developed through working-level discussions and executive-level engagements.
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