Kagawa Prefecture partners with Nvidia to boost AI use among local firms and attract data centre development, leveraging its stable infrastructure.

TOKYO: Kagawa Prefecture has become Japan’s first local government to sign a partnership agreement with the Japanese unit of semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp.

The deal aims to expand artificial intelligence use among regional companies and attract data centre development.

The prefectural government has been promoting the area as ideal for technology firms due to its low natural disaster risk and stable electricity supply.

It also hopes to improve local firm productivity by clustering companies that utilise Nvidia’s graphics processing units.

“We take pride in Kagawa’s advantageous location when it comes to the operation of GPU centres,” Kagawa Governor Toyohito Ikeda said at the signing ceremony.

He added that they hope to expand AI implementation for prefectural firms by enlisting Nvidia’s help.

Masataka Osaki, head of Nvidia’s Japanese unit, noted that a range of AI catered to individual regions has been launched globally.

“We hope Kagawa Prefecture will become a role model across the country,” Osaki said. – (Bernama, Kyodo)

 The Sun Malaysia