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A look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan
First reported by Bloomberg ·
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Japan is betting $640 billion on AI and chips. But this struggling city shows the limits of that investment.
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