ESR Group: Higashikurume
The company acquired a site in Higashikurume, Tokyo, which previously housed three office buildings across 20,900 square meters (225,000 square feet).
ESR Group is Asia-Pacific's leading New Economy real asset manager and one of the largest listed real estate investment managers globally. The company's fully integrated fund management and development platform extends across Australia and New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Greater China, Southeast Asia and India, including a presence in Europe. ESR Group provides investors with a diverse range of real asset investment and development solutions across private and public investment vehicles. The firm's focus on New Economy real assets offers customers modern solutions for logistics, data centers, and infrastructure and renewables. ESR Group's purpose, Space and Investment Solutions for a Sustainable Future, drives the company to manage sustainably and impactfully for the communities where it operates and the spaces it develops to thrive for generations to come. ESR Group is listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (HKSE: 1821.HK).
The company acquired a site in Higashikurume, Tokyo, which previously housed three office buildings across 20,900 square meters (225,000 square feet).
This will be the company's fourth data center in Japan and second in Tokyo. Construction is scheduled to begin in Q2 2026, with operations expected to start by the end of 2028.
The plan for a 350MW data center campus in Johor, Malaysia, by Logos and UEM Sunrise has been officially cancelled.
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).
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.
ESR is developing the Rabale MU1 Data Centre in Navi Mumbai as its first Indian data center project. Located within the Airoli–Rabale digital infrastructure cluster, the facility has been fully pre-leased and is designed to support large-scale cloud, AI, and enterprise deployments.
OS2 is the second building planned on ESR's Cosmosquare campus in Nanko Kita, Osaka, on the south half of the parcel it shares with OS1. CloudHQ markets it as KIX2.
OS1 is the first building on ESR's Cosmosquare campus in Nanko Kita, Osaka: a five-storey, base-isolated steel data center designed by NTT Facilities, built by Toda Construction and operated by CloudHQ as KIX1.
OS3 is the third building planned on ESR's Cosmosquare campus in Nanko Kita, Osaka. It redevelops the IBM Japan Osaka Nanko building on the west side of the campus after that building's lease ends. CloudHQ markets it as KIX3.
ESR's first South Korean data center: a nine-storey, 80 MW facility-load build in Incheon's Bupyeong National Industrial Complex, pre-leased to Princeton Digital Group.
ESR Group has secured a HK$1.6 billion (US$205m) Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) to fund the conversion of a building in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, into the ESR Kwai Chung Data Centre HK1.
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