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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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