NTT builds Japan's first dedicated data center for Anthropic. The battle for computing power sovereignty keeps Claude local. Japan is moving the most valuable piece of the puzzle in the AI ​​era - computing power - to its own land.

NTT builds Japan's first dedicated data center for Anthropic, and the battle for computing power sovereignty keeps Claude local. Japan is moving the most valuable piece of the puzzle in the AI ​​era - computing power - to its own land. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Company (NTT) plans to build its first dedicated data center locally for the American AI company Anthropic. This is not only another expansion of Anthropic’s infrastructure in Asia, but also reveals Japan’s strategic thinking of seizing local computing power in the era of artificial intelligence. The two parties will cooperate on AI computing infrastructure. The new data center is expected to deploy large-scale computing equipment dedicated to running and training advanced models, providing a base for the business expansion of the Claude series in Japan and Asia-Pacific. In recent years, the demand for generative AI has been rising, and the computing power required to train and run large models has increased rapidly. Various AI companies have spent money to build new computer rooms. As an important rival of OpenAI, Anthropic is also accelerating the weaving of global infrastructure networks. For NTT, this cooperation can not only support its own data center business, but also help it gain a more advanced position in the AI ​​infrastructure market. The Japanese government has been encouraging domestic companies to increase investment in AI and semiconductors in recent years, with the goal of reducing reliance on overseas critical digital infrastructure and at the same time extraditing more computing resources from international technology companies to Japan. The deeper motivation is written in the four words of data sovereignty. As AI applications become more popular, more and more countries are beginning to value computing resource security and local deployment capabilities. For customers such as finance, medical, manufacturing, and government agencies, running AI services within their own countries is becoming increasingly important. So Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Anthropic are all lining up to promote regional data center plans. Anthropic's business has skyrocketed after receiving support from giants such as Amazon and Google. Claude has become one of the world's major generative AI platforms. The use of NTT to bring dedicated facilities to Japan is seen as a key step in strengthening its competitiveness in Asia. According to industry judgment, as the scale of models continues to expand, future data center construction itself will become one of the main battlefields of global technology competition. Japan's introduction of Anthropic special facilities will not only expand the domestic AI computing power, but may also stimulate the entire industry chain of servers, network equipment, power and semiconductors. When a data center built for Claude was powered on Japanese soil, the boundary of computing power sovereignty was clearly drawn again. via AI News (author: AI Base)