May 26, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
SoftBank Corp. is set to launch an “AI Data Center GPU Cloud” service in Japan starting October 2026. The offering will form part of SoftBank Corp.’s neocloud business and will be built on its Infrinia AI Cloud OS stack. A beta version is already available. The service will run on SoftBank’s AI computing infrastructure, including deployments of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems across its data centers in Japan, although the company has not disclosed which facilities will host the workloads. The Infrinia AI Cloud OS is designed to provide Kubernetes-as-a-Service and Inference-as-a-Service capabilities for AI workloads.
SoftBank Corp. operates data centers through its subsidiary IDC Frontier. The company broke ground in April 2025 on what could become a 1GW campus in Tomakomai, located in Hokkaido. It also maintains data center facilities across Japan, including in the Tokyo metropolitan area (Fuchu, Ariake, and Nihombashi, as well as Yokohama), the Tohoku region (Shirakawa), Kansai (Suita), and Kyushu (Kitakyushu). In addition, is planning to develop a 150MW data center at the site of a recently closed LCD factory acquired from Sharp Corporation.
Junichi Miyakawa, president & CEO of SoftBank Corp., said: "As AI becomes more deeply integrated into society, the source of competitiveness is expanding beyond AI itself to include the computing power and operational software that support it. Under our new growth strategy, 'Activate AI for Society,' SoftBank will provide integrated computing infrastructure and software that can be securely used within Japan as a neocloud provider. 'Infrinia AI Cloud OS' and 'AI Data Center GPU Cloud' will serve as core services in this initiative, strongly supporting customers' AI development and real-world deployment."
Charlie Boyle, vice president of DGX systems at Nvidia, added: "The transformation of telecommunications into an AI-native architecture requires a new foundation of AI infrastructure capable of handling the most complex sovereign AI workloads. SoftBank's deployment of the Nvidia GB200 NVL72 and 'Infrinia AI Cloud OS' gives Japanese enterprises a high-performance, secure, and scalable platform to accelerate their industries."
