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 Corporation, AIO Core Corporation, Kioxia Corporation, and Kyocera Corporation.

The 2 trillion yen ($17 billion) "Building Next-Generation Digital Infrastructure" project will help develop manufacturing technology for silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors and SiC wafer manufacturing technology. During the project, there will also be a focus on developing new accelerators and optical smart NIC technologies.

Vivek Mahajan, Corporate Executive Officer, CTO, Fujitsu Ltd., commented: "We are excited to take on the challenge of developing leading-edge technologies for energy-efficient CPUs (code-named Fujitsu-MONAKA) and photonics smart NIC as part of our work with NEDO."

Adding: "Fujitsu will harness this technology to deliver robust, yet environmentally-sustainable digital infrastructure that takes full advantage of Fujitsu's strengths in areas like computing and network technologies. I am confident that our work on this initiative will help demonstrate Japan's technological capabilities, and show how Fujitsu can lead the way globally in innovation that contributes to the realization of a carbon-neutral and sustainable society."