Japan’s biggest data centre hub planned in Toyama prefecture

TOKYO: A city in western Japan plans to launch the country’s third and largest data centre cluster with total power capacity of 3.1 gigawatts, a document showed, as the Asian nation races to meet surging demand for artificial intelligence-related services.

Nanto ‌city in Toyama ‌prefecture, near the Sea of Japan, is due to announce the plan with private developer GigaStream Toyama on Friday, according to the document obtained ‌by Reuters.