TOKYO-- Tencent Holdings plans to open a third data center in Japan, where its cloud services for online games and livestreaming systems are enjoying robust demand.<\/p>\n
Tencent's Japanese business has been posting triple-digit annual growth, driven by cloud services for games, said Poshu Yeung, senior vice president for the company's international cloud operations, in an interview with Nikkei.<\/p>\n
\"We are considering a third site for a data center,\" he said from Hong Kong.\"We have the experience, so this won't take much time.\"<\/p>\n
The Chinese technology giant, which entered Japan's cloud market in 2019, did not disclose its Japanese revenue or capital outlays for data centers.<\/p>\n
In Japan, Tencent will also launch a service Thursday to support metaverse creation with dozens of templates. This is an update to the support service the company began in January for cloud avatar creation and livestreaming -- an offering that still required technical customization by customers.<\/p>\n
\"We'll ease the burden on customers by offering an array of templates,\" Yeung said.<\/p>\n
Having branched out into overseas markets in 2016, Tencent now has a presence in more than 10 countries and regions. Today it operates \"30 data centers outside China with new additions in Brazil and Indonesia,\" according to Yeung.<\/p>\n
South Korea and Japan are similar markets in that demand is robust in the entertainment sector, such as for games.<\/p>\n
\"Tencent will tapits experience in the gaming sector to support game companies in Japan and South Korea in expanding their customer bases to Brazil and Southeast Asia,\" Yeung said.<\/p>\n
In the U.S. and Europe, \"orders are growing for cloud services designed to link businesses there with their offices in China,\" he said.<\/p>\n
U.S. companies are not avoiding Chinese cloud services much amid trade frictions, according to Yeung.<\/p>\n
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