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Read Eurus Energy and Toyota Break Ground on Wind-Powered Data Centre in Hokkaido
Japanese renewable energy company Eurus Energy has begun construction of the Soya Green Data Center 1 in Hokkaido, developed with Toyota Tsusho. The facility will be Japan’s first data centre direc...

Eurus Energy and Toyota Break Ground on Wind-Powered Data Centre in Hokkaido

July 24, 2026 Japan

Japanese renewable energy company Eurus Energy has begun construction of the Soya Green Data Center 1 in Hokkaido, developed with Toyota Tsusho. The facility will be Japan’s first data centre directly powered by wind energy, using electricity from the nearby Kobaoko Wind Farm via a private line....

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Read PowerX and Highreso Partner on Data Center and BESS Collaboration
Japanese battery energy storage system (BESS) developer PowerX and data center operator Highreso have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on deploying battery storage at Highr...

PowerX and Highreso Partner on Data Center and BESS Collaboration

July 16, 2026 Japan

Japanese battery energy storage system (BESS) developer PowerX and data center operator Highreso have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on deploying battery storage at Highreso's data centers and expanding its GPU data center business. Highreso operates the GPUSOROBAN GPU...

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Read Goodman Plans New Data Center Campus Near Tokyo
Goodman Plans New Data Center Campus Near Tokyo

Goodman Plans New Data Center Campus Near Tokyo

May 29, 2026 Goodman Group

Australian property group Goodman Group is moving forward with plans to develop a new data center campus near Tokyo. The company announced this week that it has been appointed lead development partner by a consortium of local landowners and stakeholders working on a proposed data center campus in...

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Read PowerX Unveils Mounted BESS for Data Centers
PowerX Unveils Mounted BESS for Data Centers

PowerX Unveils Mounted BESS for Data Centers

May 19, 2026 Japan

PowerX, a Japanese energy storage firm, has unveiled a mounted battery energy storage system for data centers. The product concept, dubbed "PowerX Energy Blade," is a high-output, rack-mounted lithium-ion battery storage system. The company claims that the unit will be optimized for rapid charge...

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Read Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan
Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan

Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Campus Planned in Toyama, Japan

January 09, 2026 Japan

Nanto City and data center firm GigaStream Toyama are planning to develop a large-scale cluster known as the Nanto Campus. The site, located on land outside Toyama within Nanto City, will reportedly support up to 3.1GW upon completion.Renders suggest two-buildings are planned in the first phase....

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Read Goodman, CPP Investments Establish €8bn European Data Center Platform
Goodman, CPP Investments Establish €8bn European Data Center Platform

Goodman, CPP Investments Establish €8bn European Data Center Platform

December 25, 2025 Goodman Group

Goodman Group has teamed up with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) to establish a €8 billion (US$9.4bn) European data center partnership.The 50/50 venture will see the companies commit an initial €2.2bn (US$2.59bn) to develop a portfolio of data center projects across...

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Read Data Centers Driving AU$17.5bn Goodman Group Construction
Data Centers Driving AU$17.5bn Goodman Group Construction

Data Centers Driving AU$17.5bn Goodman Group Construction

November 08, 2025 Goodman Group

Goodman Group expects its work-in-progress pipeline to hit a record AU$17.5 billion (US$11.3bn) next year, driven by the growth of its data center business. Goodman said it currently has AU$12.4 billion (US$8bn) of work in progress, with data centers representing 68 percent of this. The figure is...

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Read Goodman Plans 97MW Facility in Silicon Valley
Goodman Plans 97MW Facility in Silicon Valley

Goodman Plans 97MW Facility in Silicon Valley

November 01, 2025 Goodman Group

Logistics firm Goodman this week announced the acquisition of a 45.8-acre site in San Jose that will host a two-building data center campus totaling 414,000 square feet (38,460 sqm) with up to 97.3MW of available power by 2028. The property, at 350 & 370 West Trimble Road in Santa Clara...

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Read Goodman Tops out Data Center in Los Angeles, California
Goodman Tops out Data Center in Los Angeles, California

Goodman Tops out Data Center in Los Angeles, California

September 23, 2025 Goodman Group

Goodman Group has completed the structural topping out of its Goodman LAX01 Vernon data center. Located at 3094 E Vernon Avenue in Vernon, the three-story LAX01 spans 263,410 sq ft (24,471 sqm) and will deliver up to 32MW of critical IT power (49.5MW gross).The facility will be able to host...

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Read MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform
MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

MOL Partners with Kinetics for Floating Data Center Platform

July 07, 2025 Japan

Japanese shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has partnered with Kinetics, an energy systems provider, to develop a floating data center platform. Both companies are to collaborate on the design, construction, and deployment of a data center hosted on a retrofitted vessel.The partnership will...

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Read CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group
CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group

CloudHQ forms a JV with ESR Group

January 22, 2025 Japan

Data center provider CloudHQ has formed a joint venture with real asset manager ESR Group for the Cosmosqure data center project in Osaka, Japan. Located in Nanko Kita, 10km (6.2 miles) from Osaka’s central business district, the campus will see an investment of $2 billion to deliver a planned...

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Read EdgeConneX to expand into Japan
EdgeConneX to expand into Japan

EdgeConneX to expand into Japan

January 15, 2025 Japan

Data center firm EdgeConneX this week announced plans to develop a facility in the greater Osaka-Kyoto area alongside Kagoya Asset Management. The EdgeConneX greater Osaka-Kyoto data center development is targeted to be ready-for-service in 2027 with a total capacity of more than 140MW when fully...

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Read Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers
Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers

Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers

November 23, 2024 Japan

Japan's Rakuten Group is set to deploy Ampere hardware across its data centers. The company is expanding its partnership with Ampere Computing to reduce the power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) computing.Hironori Yoshida, executive officer and vice director of the cloud platform...

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Read Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud
Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud

Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud

September 18, 2024 Japan

Ricoh, a Japanese company specializing in imaging and electronics, has moved its on-premise workloads to the cloud as a part of the company's GLIDER data infrastructure project which aims to consolidate data from sales, inventory, and operations from more than 50 separate companies that make up...

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Read Empyrion Digital to expand into Japan
Empyrion Digital to expand into Japan

Empyrion Digital to expand into Japan

September 05, 2024 Japan

APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital this week announced it has signed a binding agreement with “one of Japan’s largest diversified financial services groups” to develop a 25MW AI-ready data center in Tokyo. Mark Fong, CEO of Empyrion Digital described the news as a "significant milestone" for...

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Read ESR completes construction work of its data center in Osaka, Japan
ESR completes construction work of its data center in Osaka, Japan

ESR completes construction work of its data center in Osaka, Japan

August 31, 2024 Japan

ESR, an APAC real estate firm this week announced that it has successfully completed the core and shell of its Cosmosquare OS1 data center project in Nanko Kita. The facility will be ready for service in May 2025 and once fitted out, it will provide 25MW of capacity. At full build-out, the $2...

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Read Singtel and Hitachi partner on new AI data centers in Japan
Singtel and Hitachi partner on new AI data centers in Japan

Singtel and Hitachi partner on new AI data centers in Japan

August 28, 2024 Japan

Singaporean telco Singtel and Japanese giant Hitachi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on “next-generation data centers and GPU cloud” in Japan and potentially the wider Asia Pacific region under the lead of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit. Bill Chang, CEO of Singtel’s...

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Read Toyo Tire selects HPE for HPC via GreenLake cloud offering
Toyo Tire selects HPE for HPC via GreenLake cloud offering

Toyo Tire selects HPE for HPC via GreenLake cloud offering

August 27, 2024 Japan

Japanese tire company Toyo Tire Corporation has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver a high-performance computing (HPC) system via its GreenLake cloud offering. It will be providing its seventh-generation HPC system, which is three times more powerful than its predecessor, as a...

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Read Japanese scientists develop new EUV lithography technology
Japanese scientists develop new EUV lithography technology

Japanese scientists develop new EUV lithography technology

August 07, 2024 Japan

Professor Tsumoru Shintake of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that is supposedly superior to the method currently used in semiconductor manufacturing. The proposed method uses smaller EUV light sources, which...

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Read Japan's SoftBank acquires British AI chip designer Graphcore
Japan's SoftBank acquires British AI chip designer Graphcore

Japan's SoftBank acquires British AI chip designer Graphcore

July 12, 2024 Japan

Japan's SoftBank Group Corp has acquired British chip designer Graphcore, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank, but will continue to operate under the Graphcore name.“This is a tremendous endorsement of our team and their ability to build truly transformative AI technologies at...

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