Details
- NVIDIA and Noetra Corp. will build the NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factory in Japan, equipped with 13,750 Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs, delivering 140MW of data center capacity on the NVIDIA DSX platform.
- The project is supported by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and leading industrial partners as the country’s first national AI infrastructure focused on physical AI across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and telecommunications.
- The factory will use Vera Rubin NVL72 racks, Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and BlueField DPUs to train open multimodal foundation models for AI agents, digital twins, robotics and other physical AI applications, including trillion-parameter-scale models.
- The infrastructure underpins METI’s FRONTia Project to develop multimodal foundation models for AI robotics and physical AI, with pretrained weights from Noetra’s models and NVIDIA software (Nemotron, Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, NeMo) made broadly available to domestic developers and enterprises.
- The initiative aligns with Japan’s AI Robotics Strategy, which targets over 30% of the global AI robotics market by 2040, and complements broader sovereign AI infrastructure investments in the country aimed at strengthening industrial competitiveness and onshore compute capacity.
Impact
This AI factory positions Japan as an early mover in national-scale physical AI infrastructure, supporting domestic development of robotics and agentic AI while reducing reliance on foreign cloud providers. Over the next 12–24 months, it is likely to catalyze large-scale foundation model R&D, attract industrial and academic collaborations, and shape Japan’s regulatory and funding priorities around sovereign compute, manufacturing automation and AI robotics exports.
