SoftBank makes domestic AI data centre move

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SoftBank joins sovereign AI race

Japanese telco SoftBank enters the sovereign AI race with planned AI data center cloud, in what is the latest move into enterprise AI by Asian telcos.

SoftBank makes domestic AI data centre move

SoftBank Corp moved into the AI data centre sector, launching a beta of an infrastructure and software set-up which is to form the basis of a Japanese service it hopes to launch commercially in October. The AI Data Centre GPU Cloud is being put through its paces by the Japanese operator’s teams. It uses SoftBank’s hardware and Infrinia AI Cloud OS to provide compute-intensive services covering LLM development and multi-tenant capabilities. Achie…

SoftBank Corp. to launch 'AI Data Center GPU Cloud' offering in Japan

Will be available in October 2026 as part of its neocloud business