Microsoft to invest $10 bn for Japan AI data centres

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Microsoft to invest bn for Japan AI data centres

By AFP
Publication Date: 2026-04-03 05:14:00

Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith (4th L) and (L-R) Sakura Internet Inc President and CEO Kunihiro Tanaka, SoftBank Corp. President and CEO Junichi Miyakawa, Microsoft Japan President Miki Tsusaka, hold a meeitng with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (2nd R) and Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Toshiro Ino (R) at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on April 3, 2026 (Kazuhiro NOGI) · Kazuhiro NOGI/POOL/AFP

Microsoft said Friday it will invest $10 billion in Japan over the next four years to build artificial intelligence data centres and related infrastructure.

Power-hungry data centres — warehouse-like facilities that power AI tools from chatbots to image generators — are springing up worldwide, and the sector is growing particularly fast in Asia.

Microsoft President Brad Smith met Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at her office on Friday to announce the investment.

Smith said in a statement that it was a “response to Japan’s…