Japan’s MinebeaMitsumi to boost bearings output for AI data centers

Electronics

$360m investment in Southeast Asia raise capacity 30% as AI demand expands beyond chips

MinebeaMitsumi will build a facility within an existing manufacturing complex in either Cambodia or Thailand to expand bearings production. (Photos obtained by Nikkei)

TOKYO — 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.