Lee’s office says AI era demands ‘bigger state role’ amid megaproject backlash

• ·Cheong Wa Dae is positioning President Lee Jae Myung’s three megaprojects — spanning semiconductors, AI data centers and physical AI — as a state-led strategy to build South Korea’s production base for the AI era, amid growing criticism from the opposition bloc.
• ·The presidential office has rejected criticism that the projects are political showpieces for favored regions, saying they are instead a plan to build the national production system behind AI — from power and water to chips, data centers, supply chains and skilled professionals.
• ·Kim Yong-beom, President Lee’s chief policy adviser, said Sunday that the role of the state in the AI era was “even greater.” This includes building production infrastructure, reproducing production capacity and channeling production gains back into future growth, he added.
• ·“Companies can build AI,” Kim wrote in a Facebook post.
• ·“But building power grids, creating industrial sites and organizing supply chains are the work of the state.” Kim underlined that the current industrial policy “is not about the state running the market in its place,” but about “organizing the entire country into a single production platform.” “The essence of AI does not lie in a more advanced algorithm.

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