Digital Realty Begins Construction Of 24 MW Japan Data Centre

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 (Bernama) -- Digital Realty, a cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre platform, has announced the commencement of construction of KIX15, a new 24 megawatt (MW) data centre at its KIX Campus in Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

Developed by MC Digital Realty (MCDR), the company’s 50/50 joint venture in Japan with Mitsubishi Corporation, KIX15 will be the fifth data centre at the KIX Campus and is scheduled to commence operations in the fourth quarter of 2028.

“Japan is a strategic market for Digital Realty and a key part of our long-term growth in Asia Pacific. Our continued investment in Japan reflects both our confidence in the market and our commitment to building the infrastructure customers will need for the long term,” said Digital Realty Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, Serene Nah.

The new facility is planned to further expand the company’s presence across the Tokyo and Osaka metropolitan areas. Upon completion, KIX15 will bring MCDR’s Japan portfolio to 10 data centres, representing approximately 220 MW of aggregate information technology (IT) capacity.

Digital Realty in a statement said this expansion follows the opening of the NRT14 Data Center in Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture, earlier this year. NRT14 is one of the first facilities in Japan to achieve the DGX-Ready Data Center certification.

KIX15 will be part of PlatformDIGITAL, Digital Realty’s global data centre platform and is a key component of MCDR’s Kansai AI Infrastructure Co-Creation Project, an initiative centred on the KIX Campus to support the development of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure across the Kansai region.

Digital Realty said the project brings together the expansion of the KIX Campus with stronger domestic and international connectivity, as well as deeper collaboration with telecommunications and technology partners.

Designed to support hybrid air- and liquid-cooling technologies, KIX15 will also provide a high level of security and campus-based scalability. The facility is expected to support a broad range of customers, including hyperscalers, cloud service providers and companies deploying AI infrastructure.

Through Digital Realty’s ServiceFabric orchestration and interconnection platform and collaboration with multiple network service providers, customers will have access to low-latency connectivity to key locations and cloud services in Japan and more than 300 Digital Realty data centres worldwide.

-- BERNAMA