Jan 24, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Japanese telecoms firm KKDI has launched the first phase of a new data center in Osaka. The company this week announced that operations at the Osaka Sakai Data Center, located near the Osaka metropolitan area, started on January 22.
The four-story facility, totaling 57,000 sqm (613,542 sq ft), is hosting Nvidia GB200 NVL72 hardware. It uses a combination of air cooling and direct liquid cooling. KDDI said 100 percent of the site’s energy use is offset by renewable power.
KDDI Group company Medical Engineering Institute Inc., together with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, aims to use this data center from April 2026 in order to analyze medical data and explore new research projects using AI. By applying large language models to electronic medical records, the companies hope to help drug discovery, clinical research, and other medical research.
