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Japan’s GPU Cloud Just Got Real in Miyagi

Tohoku Electric Power and Getworks just made an announcement that doesn’t look huge at first glance but it actually is. They signed a memorandum to build a new container-type data center on land that Tohoku Electric owns in Miyagi. We’re not talking about just racks of servers. This place is going to be built specifically for next-generation high-performance GPU servers. These are the machines that run generative AI and heavy machine learning. So if you care about AI in Japan, this is big news. They are also planning a housing service. That means companies can rent space to install their own GPU servers. So instead of waiting months to build their own infrastructure or relying only on big cloud providers, they can plug in here. And it’s designed to be…