Sakura Internet’s upcoming data center will likely be fully booked by the time it comes online in three years, spurring the Japanese government’s homegrown network provider to ramp up purchases of Nvidia graphic processing units.
The Osaka-based company, an alternative in Japan to data centers operated by Microsoft, Google and Amazon, is seeking to dial up the pace of investments with discussions to buy some 10,000 Nvidia GPUs every year to meet snowballing demand, according to its founder Kunihiro Tanaka.
"We need some 50,000 to 100,000 Nvidia GPUs to comfortably handle the demand we see today,” the 46-year-old CEO said in an interview. "We would need a million GPUs 10 years from now, if demand rises at the current pace.”
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