SoftBank: Nara Ikoma

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East Asia

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Asia-Pacific (APAC)

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SoftBank: Nara Ikoma

Year Built: 2025

Utility Provider: Kansai Electric Power (Kansai Transmission & Distribution)

Floors: 4

Ownership: Softbank Corp. owned and operated by softbank corp. idc frontier operated the site until its data center business moved into softbank on april 1, 2026. the building.

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Site History

March 2022: SoftBank presented the project, then called the "Kansai New Center," to Ikoma City.
June 2022: SoftBank and BBIX received a national data center subsidy from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
July 2023: The structural design of Building A received ministerial certification.
July 2025: SoftBank held a completion ceremony for Building A.
October 2025: Building A opened, operated by IDC Frontier.
December 2025: BBIX opened its Osaka No. 9 internet exchange point inside the facility.
April 2026: IDC Frontier's data center business moved into SoftBank Corp.

Project Profile

Owner and operator: SoftBank Corp.
Site: former NEC Kansai Research Laboratories, 8916-47 Takayama-cho
Buildings: Building A operating, Building B planned, about 40,000 m² in total at full build
Building A: 17,835 m² gross floor area, four floors, steel frame, seismic base isolation, designed by Nikken Sekkei
Cooling: central chiller plant, wall-mounted cooling units, hot-aisle containment, and direct liquid cooling up to 150 kW per rack
Rack power: 9 to 30 kVA air-cooled, 50 to 120 kVA liquid-cooled
Resilience: main and standby utility feeds, N+1 generators with 72 hours of fuel, N+1 UPS
Connectivity: BBIX internet exchange on site
Customers: AI and GPU deployments, enterprise systems, and disaster recovery

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Sites within 15 miles of SoftBank: Nara Ikoma

Distance	Site	About
1.49 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.
1.61 miles	MC Digital Realty: KIX14	KIX14 is a planned MC Digital Realty data center in Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture, east of Osaka. The design calls for a base-isolated building with four floors above ground. MC Digital Realty is the 50/50 joint venture of Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty.
1.72 miles	STACK Osaka KIX01	Located in Osaka’s eastern suburb of Keihanna, this data center campus will comprise three buildings with robust access to power and network to ensure strong reliability.
1.72 miles	ESR Group: Keihanna OS4	ESR Group and STACK Infrastructure, major players in APAC's New Economy real estate and global digital infrastructure, are jointly building a new data center campus in Keihanna, Japan (Kansai region).
1.73 miles	STACK: KIX01C	This facility is a part of Stack's KIX01 Campus in Osaka, Japan.
1.77 miles	STACK: KIX01B	This facility is a part of Stack's KIX01 Campus in Osaka, Japan.
1.82 miles	NTT Keihanna OSK11
1.88 miles	Colt Osaka Keihanna
2.96 miles	Kagoya: Keihanna Lab B	The facility Lab B is a four-story building located on Kagoya's Keihanna Campus in Kyoto, Japan. It covers an area of 3275.29 square meters (including corridors) and has a capacity of 400 racks.
2.97 miles	Kagoya: Keihanna Lab A	The data center's first three-story Building A was built in 2006, with a four-story Building B added in 2014. Currently, the two are connected by a walkway, providing server space for up to 650+ racks.
4.19 miles	EdgeConneX: Kyotanabe 2	This facility is part of EdgeConneX Kyotanabe campus in Osaka.
4.21 miles	EdgeConneX: Osaka Kyotanabe	EdgeConneX has broken ground on a 200MW AI-ready data center campus in Kyotanabe, Greater Osaka, Japan, spanning approximately 130,000 sqm (1.4 million sq ft). Construction began in March 2026, with the first 28MW phase expected online by early 2028, followed by phased expansion to full capacity.
7.15 miles	Goldman Sachs: Higashiosaka	Goldman Sachs acquired land to build a data centre in Daito, Higashiosaka.
7.33 miles	EdgeConneX: Yawata 3	This facility is part of EdgeConneX Yawata Campus in Osaka.
7.36 miles	EdgeConneX: Osaka Yawata	EdgeConneX expands in Japan, securing a long-term land lease for its second data center site in Greater Osaka/Yawata.
7.38 miles	EdgeConneX: Yawata 2	This facility is part of EdgeConneX Yawata Campus in Osaka.
11.64 miles	NTT Osaka 7
11.75 miles	Equinix Osaka OS3
11.80 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.
11.81 miles	Digital Edge: Osaka OSA1
12.68 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.
12.72 miles	SoftBank: Osaka Suita	SoftBank data center in Suita, about 5 km from central Osaka, with dedicated links to the Dojima internet exchange.
12.89 miles	Telehouse: Osaka Umeda	KDDI Telehouse operates a colocation data center in Umeda, Osaka.
12.89 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.
12.89 miles	SoftBank: Osaka No. 3	SoftBank data center inside OPTAGE's Umeda Kita data center building in Kita Ward, Osaka, in service since 2012.
13.19 miles	NTT OS2 (Telepark Dojima Building 2)
13.28 miles	NTT Osaka OS4
13.30 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.
13.38 miles	Equinix: OS6	OS6 is Equinix's new retail colocation tower in Kyutaromachi, Chuo Ward, in central Osaka. The 13-story building is rising on a former parking lot beside Chuo-odori. Phase 1 opens in tranches from late 2027 through late 2028.
13.78 miles	Empyrion: Osaka JP2
13.78 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.
13.78 miles	AirTrunk: OSK2 Expansion
14.09 miles	Vantage: Osaka KIX11	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.
14.09 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.
14.09 miles	Vantage: KIX12	This facility will be part of Vantage's Osaka (KIX1) Campus in Osaka, Japan.
14.12 miles	NTT OS3 (Telepark Dojima Building 3)
14.13 miles	NTT Data Osaka Dojima (Building #4)
14.20 miles	CapitalLand: Osaka 01	The new facility will include more than nine data halls along with dedicated office and working spaces to support operations.
14.20 miles	Telehouse: Osaka Shinsaibashi	KDDI Telehouse operates a colocation data center in Shinsaibashi, Japan.
14.20 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.
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14.21 miles	INAP Osaka
14.24 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.
14.30 miles	NTT Osaka 5
14.34 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.
14.35 miles	Optage: Shinmachi
14.77 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.
15.13 miles	NRI: Osaka Data Center II Building 1	NRI's Osaka Data Center II is Nomura Research Institute's Kansai core and disaster-recovery data center in the Saito district of Ibaraki City. Building 1 opened in 2016 as a base-isolated facility certified to JDCC Tier 4. NRI runs its shared financial systems and outsourcing services here, and TIS markets colocation as GDC Osaka.
15.18 miles	NRI: Osaka Data Center II Building 2	Building 2 of NRI's Osaka Data Center II opened in February 2023 beside Building 1 in the Saito district of Ibaraki City. The two buildings share power-receiving equipment and serve NRI's shared financial systems and outsourcing services.
15.20 miles	MC Digital Realty: KIX15	KIX15 is MC Digital Realty's fifth data center on its KIX Campus in the Saito district of Ibaraki City, north of Osaka. The base-isolated building rises beside KIX10 and supports hybrid air and liquid cooling for hyperscale, cloud, and AI customers. MC Digital Realty is the 50/50 joint venture of Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty.
15.23 miles	MC Digital Osaka 1 (KIX10)
15.29 miles	MC Digital Osaka 2 (KIX11)
15.34 miles	MC Digital Osaka 3 (KIX12)
15.48 miles	MC Digital Osaka 4 (KIX13)
15.55 miles	Equinix: OS5x
15.56 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.
15.56 miles	Equinix: OS2x
16.50 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.
16.50 miles	Colt: Minoh 2	This facility is part of Colt's Minoh Campus in Osaka, Japan.
16.50 miles	Colt: Minoh 1	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.
17.20 miles	NTT: OSK12 Bldg-2
17.42 miles	AirTrunk: Osaka OSK1	Located in West Osaka, the development consists of a 16,500sqm facility dedicated to high-scale cloud requirements.
18.81 miles	SC Zeus: Osaka 2	This facility is part of SC Zeus' Project Zeus OSA1 campus in Osaka.
18.84 miles	SC Zeus: Osaka 1	SC Zeus, a leader in sustainable data center solutions, is developing Project ZEUS OSA 1 in Osaka, a campus that will comprise two buildings.
18.99 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.
19.00 miles	ESR Group: OS2	This facility is part of ESR Group's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
19.01 miles	CloudHQ: KIX2	This facility is part of CloudHQ's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
19.01 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).
19.07 miles	ESR Group: OS3	This facility is part of ESR Group's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
19.07 miles	CloudHQ: KIX3	This facility is part of CloudHQ's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
19.65 miles	SoftBank: Sakai	SoftBank is converting part of Sharp's former LCD panel plant in Sakai, Osaka, into a large AI data center. SoftBank bought the site in 2025 and plans to expand its power capacity in phases.
19.71 miles	KDDI: Sakai, Osaka	KDDI has launched an AI data center at the former Sharp Sakai factory site in Osaka Prefecture.

Operating Company

SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434) is a leading Japanese technology and telecommunications company that stands at the forefront of the Information Revolution. As a key player within the SoftBank Group, the company leverages cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and robotics to drive innovation across multiple sectors.
Going beyond traditional telecommunications, SoftBank Corp. focuses on developing transformative services and solutions that create value for society. The company's vision is encapsulated in its corporate philosophy "Information Revolution — Happiness for everyone," reflecting its commitment to using technology to enhance human wellbeing and societal progress.
Operating under the dynamic slogan "Smart & Fun!", SoftBank Corp. promotes an innovative workplace culture that emphasizes both productivity and employee satisfaction. The company embraces modern workstyles powered by IT and AI, fostering an environment where creativity and intelligence converge with enjoyment to drive sustainable growth and meaningful technological advancement.

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