{"id":661515,"date":"2026-10-30T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661515\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:10:16","slug":"japans-marubeni-looks-to-profit-from-bottlenecks-arising-from-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661515\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Marubeni looks to profit from bottlenecks arising from AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">CEO says energy, resource constraints can be source of growth for trading house<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20261029 Marubeni\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Marubeni, one of Japan&#8217;s five big trading houses,\u00a0sees physical constraints for energy and resources arising from the AI boom as an opportunity for growth.\u00a0(Photo by Yuki Kohara)<\/p>\n<p>SHOTARO TANI<\/p>\n<p>October 30, 2026 11:25 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japanese trading house Marubeni is betting on physical bottlenecks such as demand for energy and natural resources stemming from the artificial intelligence boom to drive its growth, expanding its exposure to businesses that supply and manage the power, metals and communications infrastructure needed to support rising demand for computing power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview CEO says energy, resource constraints can be source of growth for trading house Marubeni, one of Japan&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[345,297779,29501,171622,114,184,85,46,6198,32231,297778,5611],"class_list":["post-661515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-arising","tag-boom","tag-bottlenecks","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japans","tag-looks","tag-marubeni","tag-profit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}