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Samsung and SK Hynix Asked to Prepay $18B in Power Bills to Fund Korea's Chip Grid

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KEPCO, Samsung Electronics, and SK Hynix are negotiating an $18.3 billion electricity prepayment scheme in which Korea's debt-laden state utility turns five years of future power bills into immediate grid construction capital -- a financing model with no global precedent as semiconductor clusters across South Korea demand 20 GW of new electricity capacity.

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