Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.3 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) to extend its cloud empire in Japan.
The American cloud giant revealed its intentions during a press conference in Tokyo on Friday. The investment will be made over the next five years and drive the construction of several datacenters in the region. These will help to support the rapidly growing volume of data Amazon's network is handling, fueled in large part by the scramble to develop, train, and deploy AI models at scale, apparently.
"Our investment in cloud infrastructure generates a ripple across Japanese industries, including the public and government sector," AWS Japan President Tadao Nagasaki said. "It will help more Japanese organizations with the ability to access and adopt new, emerging, and transformational digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning."
