Japan’s Sakura Internet Loads Up on Nvidia Gear for Data Center Project
- Sakura Internet needs tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs a year
- Japan clients’ need for compute trumps cost concerns, CEO says
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Sakura Internet Inc.’s upcoming data center will likely be fully booked by the time it comes online in three years, spurring the Japanese government’s homegrown network provider to ramp up purchases of Nvidia Corp. graphic processing units.
The Osaka-based company, an alternative in Japan to data centers operated by Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc., is seeking to dial up the pace of investments with discussions to buy some 10,000 Nvidia GPUs every year to meet snowballing demand, according to its founder Kunihiro Tanaka.