Seoul, Nov. 4 -- South Korean battery maker Samsung SDI Co. is in talks with Tesla Inc. over the supply of energy storage system (ESS) batteries, as per a report by Pulse, the English service of Maeil Business News Korea.

"Tesla is said to have requested battery supplies from Samsung SDI amid rising ESS demand in North America, driven by increased investment in artificial intelligence (AI) data centre infrastructure," the report said on Monday.

While the scale of the supply has not been finalized yet, the report notes that the potential deal could be worth trillions of won.

"We are only at the early stage of discussions to expand our supply, and are assessing Tesla's request and our own production capacity," the report quoted a Samsung...