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 Ministe...

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

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.

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