Japanese cloud service provider Sakura Internet plans to increase capital expenditure by nearly six times in fiscal year 2026.

Glonghui, May 26 — To meet domestic AI demand in Japan, Japanese data center cloud service provider Sakura Internet may increase its capital expenditure for the 2026 fiscal year to nearly seven times its original plan. Company president Kunihiro Tanaka stated in an interview, "If possible, we hope to purchase new GPUs within this fiscal year (April 2026 to March 2027), with a maximum investment of 20 billion to 30 billion yen (approximately 850 million to 1.28 billion yuan)." Previously, on April 27, Sakura Internet announced that its estimated capital expenditure for the 2026 fiscal year was 4.4 billion yen.