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KDDI: Sakai, Osaka

KDDI and Sharp Corporation have announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop an AI data center at Green Front Sakai, Sharp's former factory site in Sakai, Osaka. Under the agreement, KDDI will acquire the site's land, buildings, and electrical facilities from Sharp. Construction is planned to begin by the end of March 2025, with full-scale operations expected to start by the end of March 2026.

Previously, Sharp and KDDI had announced a partnership with IT suppliers Supermicro and Datasection to redevelop the Sakai plant into an AI data center featuring Nvidia hardware. In the latest development, KDDI will maintain its collaboration with Supermicro and Datasection to build and operate the facility, while Sharp will no longer be involved.

  • This announcement raises questions about SoftBank's earlier plans to develop a data center on a portion of the closed plant. The impact of KDDI's site acquisition on SoftBank's proposed project remains unclear.

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0.12 miles Softbank: Sakai, Osaka
The planned facility will have a total floor area of 750,000 square meters, utilizing about 60% of the Sharp Sakai Plant's total land area of approximately 440,000 square meters.
3.14 miles SC Zeus: Osaka Campus
SC Zeus, a leader in sustainable data center solutions, is developing Project ZEUS OSA 1 in Osaka, a campus that will comprise two buildings.
3.14 miles SC Zeus: Osaka 2
This facility is part of SC Zeus' Project Zeus OSA1 campus in Osaka.
3.18 miles CloudHQ: KIX3
This facility is part of CloudHQ's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
3.18 miles ESR Group: OS2
This facility is part of ESR Group's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
3.18 miles CloudHQ: KIX2
This facility is part of CloudHQ's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
3.20 miles CloudHQ: Cosmosquare KIX1
Strategically positioned in Nanko Kita, Osaka City, CloudHQ's Cosmosquare is a future-proof, three-phase hyperscale data center campus (KIX1, KIX2, KIX3).
3.20 miles ESR Group: Cosmosquare OS1
The newly completed data center is the first hyperscale facility within ESR's Cosmosquare campus. At full build-out, the US$2 billion campus will comprise three buildings.
3.21 miles ESR Group: OS3
This facility is part of ESR Group's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
5.23 miles NTT: OSK12 Bldg-2
6.24 miles Mapletree: Osaka
The multi-story facility is built on a 4,200 sqm site and offers 13,330 sqm of total space, including 12,720 sqm of lettable area. The property comes with a 70-year land lease that began October 1, 2020.
6.58 miles Equinix Osaka OS1
Opened in 2013, the first phase, with room for 320 cabinets is a US$12m investment. Once fully opened the site will carry 800 cabinets.
6.59 miles Optage: Shinmachi
6.65 miles INAP Osaka
6.65 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
6.65 miles Optage: Shinsaibashi
The Shinsaibashi Data Center in central Osaka was launched in 2008. OPTAGE will establish a new connectivity area “Shinsaibashi POP (Point Of Presence)” within the existing Shinsaibashi Data Center in Osaka City By 2025.
6.66 miles Telehouse: Osaka Shinsaibashi
KDDI Telehouse operates a colocation data center in Shinsaibashi, Japan.
6.93 miles NTT Osaka 5
7.09 miles NTT Osaka OS4
7.27 miles AirTrunk: Osaka OSK2
AirTrunk’s newly announced OSK2 project is a massive hyperscale development located in East Osaka, designed specifically to meet the surging demand for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in the Kansai region.
7.27 miles AirTrunk: OSK2 Expansion
7.27 miles Empyrion: Osaka JP2
7.68 miles NTT OS3 (Telepark Dojima Building 3)
7.72 miles NTT Data Osaka Dojima (Building #4)
7.76 miles NTT: Osaka North 1(OSK12)
NTT Global Data Centers has officially broken ground on its Osaka North 1 (OSK12) data center in Ibaraki City, marking a significant expansion into one of Japan’s fastest-growing digital hubs.
7.91 miles Equinix: OS5x
7.91 miles Equinix: OS4x
Equinix's fourth data center in Osaka, Japan, is connected to the adjacent OS2x in Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture. The facility has 4,925 square meters (53,025 square feet) of data center space.
8.09 miles NTT OS2 (Telepark Dojima Building 2)
8.37 miles Optage: Sonezaki
Named 'Optage Sonezaki Data Center,' the 14-story carrier-neutral facility will offer 24,100 square feet (2,250 square meters) of space and incorporate seismic isolation design for earthquake protection.
8.90 miles Telehouse: Osaka 2
Built as the major Telehouse Data Center for the west of Japan, The Osaka 2 Data Center facility began service on 21st August, 2015.
8.91 miles Digital Edge: Osaka OSA1
8.93 miles Equinix Osaka OS3
9.18 miles MC Digital Osaka 3 (KIX12)
9.28 miles AirTrunk: Osaka OSK1
Located in West Osaka, the development consists of a 16,500sqm facility dedicated to high-scale cloud requirements.
9.38 miles Telehouse: Osaka Umeda
KDDI Telehouse operates a colocation data center in Umeda, Osaka.
9.38 miles Optage: Umeda North
This state-of-the-art data center began operations in 2012. The facility encompasses 11,534 square meters of gross floor area, with 4,000 square meters dedicated to colocation space containing 1,300 racks.
12.55 miles IDC Frontier: Osaka Suita
12.76 miles Goldman Sachs: Higashiosaka
Goldman Sachs acquired land to build a data centre in Daito, Higashiosaka.
15.16 miles IIF Osaka Toyonaka
The IIF Osaka Toyonaka Data Center facility, constructed in September 1991, stands on a 4,769.70-square-meter plot of land. The building features a total floor area of 20,027.14 square meters.
16.60 miles Colt: Minoh 2
This facility is part of Colt's Minoh Campus in Osaka, Japan.
16.60 miles Colt: Minoh, Osaka
ESR Group and Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) have formed a joint venture to develop the initial phase of a hyperscale data center in Minoh City, Osaka, Japan.
16.60 miles ESR Group: Minoh, Osaka
ESR Group and Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) have formed a joint venture to develop the initial phase of a hyperscale data center in Minoh City, Osaka, Japan.
18.70 miles Vantage: KIX12
This facility will be part of Vantage's Osaka (KIX1) Campus in Osaka, Japan.
18.73 miles Vantage Osaka (KIX1)
Located in Ibaraki, the Osaka campus comprises 485,000 square feet (45,000 square meters) and features two four-story, state-of-the-art facilities built to withstand even the worst earthquakes.
18.81 miles MC Digital Osaka Connected Campus (KIX)
18.90 miles ADA: Osaka East 1
GLP's data center subsidiary, Ada Infrastructure, plans to build a four-story data center in East Osaka, Japan. The site will feature an N+1 UPS distributed redundant and N+1 closed loop air-cooled chiller plant.
18.95 miles NTT: Nishiai
NTT acquired eight acres in Osaka Nishiai to develop two data centers, with the first facility expected to open in fiscal year 2027.
18.96 miles NTT Osaka 7
18.98 miles Equinix: OS2x
19.08 miles MC Digital Osaka 2 (KIX11)
19.13 miles MC Digital Osaka 1 (KIX10)
19.17 miles MC Digital Osaka 4 (KIX13)

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KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator formed in October 1, 2000 through the merger of DDI Corp., KDD Corp., and IDO Corp.

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