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Telehouse launches fifth facility in Frankfurt

Telehouse has launched and fully leased its fifth data center at its Frankfurt campus dubbed building M. This data center now adds 4.5 MW of IT capacity which has been fully leased less than two months since its opening. Dr. Béla Waldhauser, managing director of Telehouse Deutschland said, "I...

December 29, 2023

Telehouse

Telehouse, NLP launches time-as-a-service offering

Data center provider Telehouse International Corporation together with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Metrology Institute has launched a time-as-a-time service offering called NPLTime Certified. This service functions to provide businesses with a synchronized time si...

October 24, 2023

Telehouse

Telehouse to expand its largest existing DC facility

KDDI-owned global data center service provider Telehouse Europe has announced plans to upgrade its largest existing data center, Telehouse South in London. The company announced that Skanska will be the contractor to complete the first phase of this upgrade which is expected to be finalized by...

October 16, 2023

Telehouse

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

AirTrunk officially starts the TOK1 facility expansion in Tokyo, Japan

AirTrunk has begun work on an expansion of its Tokyo, Japan, TOK1 campus. Senior AirTrunker personnel and construction partners attended a traditional "jichinsai" Shinto launching ceremony to spiritually sanctify the land in preparation for safe and efficient construction. No timelines for com...

July 03, 2023

AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1

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

Telehouse, a subsidiary of KDDI, buys Allied Properties' data center holdings for $1 billion

Telehouse has entered the Canadian market with the acquisition of three data centers. KDDI, the parent company of the data center company, announced this week that it had acquired three data centers and the associated assets in Toronto, Canada, from Allied Properties REIT. KDDI paid $1.02 bil...

June 22, 2023

Telehouse

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

Telehouse Presents Data Facility in Bangkok

Telehouse opened its first data center in Thailand in Bangkok. The company owned by KDDI recently conducted a grand opening ceremony for the new Rama 9 location in Bangkok. The 97,000-square-foot facility with a capacity of 9.5MVA was announced in January 2022. The business reported investing ...

May 30, 2023

Telehouse

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

Multifeed launches JPNAP service at Osaka 7 Data Center

Internet Multifeed has announced that it has added the Osaka Data Center 7 in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, to its JPNAP service. The data center is operated by NTT Communications Corporation and will go online for operations in May 2023.According to the company, the data center is one of th...

April 24, 2023

Osaka

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

Oxford Quantum Circuits Will Install Quantum Computer at Equinix Japan Data Facility

A quantum computer is being installed at an Equinix data center in Tokyo, Japan, by the UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC). This week, the company said that starting in late 2023, it will provide "Quantum Computing as a Service" through a system on Equinix's TY11 Tokyo International Bus...

March 15, 2023

Equinix Tokyo TY11

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

Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center

AirTrunk has announced that it has broken ground on the second phase of its TOK2 data center located in Tokyo, Japan. This follows the groundbreaking of the first phase only three months ago. The company has outlined that the new phase is scalable to approximately 50MW of capacity and custom-...

February 22, 2023

Tokyo

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

Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

Alibaba has established a data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company stated in December 2022 that its Alibaba Cloud/Aliyun division had opened a third data center in Japan to "meet the transformation expectations" of clients. Unique Song, General Manager of Japan for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, ...

December 23, 2022

Tokyo

ESR Already Developing its 19.2MW OS1data center in Osaka, Japan

Asia’s ESR Group has started work on its 19.2MW facility in Osaka, Japan. The real estate company revealed that the Cosmosquare OS1 data center would be phase 1 of its three-phase facility at Nanko Kita. The company plans to develop a total of 96MW on the site. OS1 is scheduled to be comple...

November 08, 2022

Osaka

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