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Ureru Net pushes GPU data center subsidiary formation to June

Ureru Net Advertising Group pushed formation of its GPU data-centre subsidiary to June from April after extra enquiries with administrative bodies, including the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, took longer than planned. The company said the added legal checks also forced a review of facility configuration, services and operating structure. Trial container-server operations are still targeted for around August, but only if compliance and equipment work are finished first.

Jun 8, 20262 min read
Containerized server units with power and cooling lines in an industrial yard, representing a GPU server trial facility.

Ureru Net Advertising Group has pushed the planned establishment of BCDC.Ai.GPU Data Center Co., Ltd., the subsidiary it intends to use for a high-performance GPU server center business, from April to sometime in June. The board had approved the subsidiary on March 18, with April pencilled in on the assumption that establishment procedures and business-start preparations would move as expected. Management now says extra enquiries with administrative bodies, including the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, about legal regulations that need to be checked before launch have taken longer than planned.

The delay is not just a bureaucratic wobble. Ureru Net said the added regulatory work also forced a fresh review of the business content, facility configuration, services to be offered and the operating structure for the new unit. The company said it judged that the project had to proceed on the premise of legal compliance and appropriate business operation, and therefore chose to keep the confirmation and review work going rather than stick to the earlier date.

GPU server project timetable
Timing is company guidance and remains conditional on legal checks and equipment preparation.
MilestoneCurrent timingDisclosed note
Subsidiary establishmentJune 2026 plannedPreviously planned for April 2026
Container server trial operationsAround August 2026 targetConditional on legal confirmations and equipment preparation

That matters because the disclosure suggests the real bottleneck is not merely forming a subsidiary on paper. The company is still working through how the GPU server business should actually be built and run once the legal checks are settled. For readers following corporate infrastructure build-outs, this is a useful reminder that service design, equipment choices and operating controls can delay a project before any new compute capacity starts humming.

Ureru Net still says it is aiming to begin container server operations on a trial basis around August, but only if the legal confirmations and equipment preparation are completed first. The wording deserves attention. August is a target for trial operation, not a stated date for full commercial rollout, and the company did not disclose what the final customer offering or business scale will look like. It also said the impact on consolidated earnings is still under review and that it will disclose further items promptly if needed.

So the update gives investors a firmer timetable, but not a finished business plan. The next checkpoint is simple enough: whether the subsidiary is actually formed in June, and whether the August trial target survives the same legal and planning checks that have already pushed the project back once.