{"id":569457,"date":"2026-07-05T03:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/569457\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:13:12","slug":"japans-minebeamitsumi-to-boost-bearings-output-for-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/569457\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s MinebeaMitsumi to boost bearings output for AI data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/electronics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Electronics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">$360m investment in Southeast Asia to raise capacity 30% as AI demand expands beyond chips<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260704N MinebeaMitsumi Logo Bearings Nikkei\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">MinebeaMitsumi will build a\u00a0facility within an existing manufacturing complex in either Cambodia or Thailand to expand bearings production. (Photos obtained by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; MinebeaMitsumi will invest 58 billion yen ($360 million) to expand production of precision bearings used in cooling equipment and storage devices for artificial intelligence data centers, as AI-driven demand increasingly spreads beyond semiconductors to the broader electronic components sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electronics $360m investment in Southeast Asia to raise capacity 30% as AI demand expands beyond chips MinebeaMitsumi will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,242792,36961,23077,2594,18,19,17,38770,242791,77466,82],"class_list":["post-569457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bearings","tag-boost","tag-centers","tag-data","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japans","tag-minebeamitsumi","tag-output","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}