Japan: SoftBank and NVIDIA Partner for AI Data Centers all through Japan

SoftBank Corp has partnered with the American multinational technology firm NVIDIA to set up a platform for dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G products. It is built on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and SoftBank intends to deploy it in Japan's new distributed AI data centers.

NVIDIA said in a press release on Monday that SoftBank would build data centers that can, in partnership with NVIDIA, host artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless tools on a multi-tenant common server platform, which lowers costs and is more energy efficient. This will pave the way for the quick, global deployment of generative AI applications and services.

The platform will utilize the latest NVIDIA MGX reference framework with Arm Neoverse-based GH200 Superchips and is anticipated to improve application workflow performance, scalability, and utilization of resources. 

Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, stated that the demand for accelerated computation and generative AI drives a fundamental shift in the data center architecture.

The new data centers, which will support AI and 5G workloads, will be distributed across the company's footprint more evenly than those currently in use. This will enable them to operate more efficiently at peak capacity, with low latency, and significantly reduce total energy costs.