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Mitsubishi teams up with FNT to boost data center sustainability

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and FNT Software have announced the signing of an MoU to construct sustainable data centres to support decarbonization efforts. Through the MoU, MHI’s analysis and energy management solutions will be integrated into FNT’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM)...

July 27, 2023

Japan

N-Ark's proposes floating cities with underwater Edge data centers

Japanese start-up N-Ark has unveiled designs for a floating city named ‘Dogen City,’ which, as the climate crisis worsens, looks to be a place of refuge for those who can afford to escape the effects of climate change. That said, the company also shared that it would also "accept and provide ...

June 22, 2023

Japan

SoftBank and NVIDIA Partner for AI Data Centers all through Japan

SoftBank Corp has partnered with the American multinational technology firm NVIDIA to set up a platform for dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G products. It is built on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and SoftBank intends to deploy it in Japan's new distributed AI data cent...

May 31, 2023

Japan

Japan Seeks Subsidies for Hokkaido and Kyushu Data Centers

To encourage the development of data centers, which are essential to a digital society, in the Kyushu southwestern region and Hokkaido's most northern prefecture, Japan's industry ministry on Tuesday proposed offering subsidies.The ministry stated that Hokkaido and Kyushu are ideal locations f...

May 30, 2023

Japan

Japanese Renewable Energy Industry's announces first solar-powered data center achieves stable operations

Japan Renewable Energy Corporation (JRE) has announced that stable operation has been achieved at the Morgenrot data center constructed on the grounds of its solar power plant in Nagano prefecture. Morgenrot will provide its M:CPP (Morgenrot Computing Power Pool) GPU cloud service from the dat...

May 09, 2023

Japan

Toshiba Will be Purchased by Japan Industrial Partners For $15 billion

Japan Industrial Partners Inc. (JIP), a Japanese investment firm, will take Toshiba private. Last week, the Japanese conglomerate revealed that TBJH Inc., an indirect subsidiary of JIP, would buy out all of the company's shares on the Tokyo and Nagoya Stock Exchanges and take the business priv...

March 24, 2023

Japan

Japan Meteorological Agency Receives 31 Petaflops Supercomputer From Fujitsu

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has received a new 31.1 petaflop supercomputer from Fujitsu. The new system will be used to forecast the probability of linear rainbands, which can result in floods and landslides and is anticipated to be operational in March 2023. Cumulonimbus clouds that...

March 01, 2023

Japan

IIJ announces sustainability efforts with rooftop solar power system

Japanese ISP Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) has announced its sustainability efforts with the installation of a 336kWp rooftop solar power system at its Shiroi data center campus in Chiba Prefecture. The solar panels, primed to generate approximately 373MWh annually, 3 percent of the fac...

February 03, 2023

Japan

Optage to build new data center in Osaka, Japan

Optage Inc. has announced plans to build a new data center in Osaka, Japan. Named the 'Optage Sonezaki Data Center', this facility will be the company's fifth, with work to commence in November 2023 and due to open in January 2026.The facility will be located in the Higashi-Umeda area of the c...

January 27, 2023

Japan

NEC to expand its green data centers in Kanagawa and Kobe

NEC Corporation has announced that it is establishing two new green data centers, in response to the growing demand. The first is the "NEC Kanagawa Data Center: Phase 2 Building" which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2023, and the second is "NEC Kobe Data Center: Phase 3 Building," ...

September 23, 2022

Japan

Are ammonia-powered data centers the future?

As the race for more sustainable power options continues in the data center industry, a raft of alternatives have been proposed, from solar to green hydrogen. However, perhaps one option that few expected is ammonia, which is now being pegged as the next major renewable fuel. Joel Moser, CEO o...

July 15, 2022

Japan

The White Data Center (WDC): Sustainability and the circular economy

The White Data Center (WDC) in Japan's North Island of Hokkaido, is a research project run by the city of Babai. It initially ran between 2014-2019, in collaboration with Japan's NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) research body. Its aim was to research how sno...

April 14, 2022

Japan

ESR to expand in Tokyo

ESR Cayman has announced its plans to develop a new 20MW data center in West Tokyo, Japan. This comes following the company’s acquisition of a data center asset in Higashi Kurume, which spans 20,900 sqm (225,00 sqft). Looking ahead, the company has said that its new facility will be operation...

April 07, 2022

Japan

NEC and SCSK are Forming a Data Center Joint Venture

Two Japanese firms are coming together to form a data center joint venture. NEC and IT firm SCSK Corporation revealed that they are partnering up to strengthen their network and data center business involvement. The JW will see the firms create SCSK NEC Data Center Management, ltd. The new ...

March 10, 2022

Japan

NEDO announces fund for new green data center research

Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has announced that it will be funding projects pushing forward greener data centers with its Green Innovation Fund. A number of companies have been selected to work on the project. This includes Fujitsu, NEC Corporati...

March 01, 2022

Japan

GLP To Invest $12b in Developing Data Centers in Japan

GLP has revealed its plans to enter the Japanese data center market. The company is looking to develop data centers with up to 900MW of capacity over the next five years in the market. In addition, it will also invest up to $12 billion to bring facilities to live. By so doing, the Singapore...

February 21, 2022

Japan

IIJ: Micro data center moves in at Shiroi Data Center Campus

IIJ has announced that it has deployed a micro data center on the premises of Shiroi Data Center Campus (Shiroi DCC), the first of its kind in Japan. A 12U, the micro data center has an available range of 12U to 38U. The MDC also has a cooling unit, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), envir...

October 05, 2021

Japan

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