The Hokkaido Data Center project, first announced in November 2023 with its subsidiary IDC Frontier, is a $455.8 million undertaking spanning 700,000 square meters (7.5 million sq ft).
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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.
The facility has a gross floor area of 45,419 square meters and contains approximately 4,000 racks.
Tokyo Ariake Data Center is located in Tokyo Waterfront City, which has been developed as "a disaster-resilient city".
