“Microsoft to invest $2.9 billion to expand AI, cloud infra in Japan”
April 10, 2024
“Microsoft said on Tuesday it would invest $2.9 billion over two years to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in Japan, the latest in a series of overseas expansions by large tech firms to support the development of artificial intelligence.
The investment – the company’s largest in the 46 years of its operations in the country – will also go towards skilling three million people in AI and setting up a Microsoft Research Asia lab in Tokyo…”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-invest-2-9-billion-103332133.html