{"id":379398,"date":"2026-04-03T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:25:09","slug":"microsoft-to-pour-10bn-into-japan-data-centers-work-with-softbank-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379398\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to pour $10bn into Japan data centers, work with SoftBank on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/companies\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Move comes amid growing focus on data sovereignty for economic security<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260403 Microsoft Data center\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Microsoft&#8217;s $10 billion investment into Japan aligns with Takaichi\u00a0government&#8217;s AI strategy. (Source photos by Reuters)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in Japan over the four years through 2029, focusing mainly on data centers and related facilities, Nikkei learned Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies Move comes amid growing focus on data sovereignty for economic security Microsoft&#8217;s $10 billion investment into Japan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[169558,220,218,219,6633,3096,61,60,582,1071,81841,9969,80,1962],"class_list":{"0":"post-379398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-10bn","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-centers","13":"tag-data","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-japan","17":"tag-microsoft","18":"tag-pour","19":"tag-softbank","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-work"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}