NTT Data said to eye ¥1.5 trillion outlay for Japan data centers
The company intends to add roughly 750 megawatts of capacity over the next seven years to meet soaring demand from companies seeking to catch up in artificial intelligence.
NTT Data Group anticipates investing a minimum of $9 billion by 2033 to quintuple Japan's computing capacity to 1 gigawatt. The nation's leading data center operator, controlled by government-owned NTT, plans to augment its capacity by approximately 750 megawatts within the next seven years to meet the escalating demand from businesses striving to keep pace with artificial intelligence advancements.
According to sources familiar with the matter, this would entail spending at least ¥1.5 trillion ($9.6 billion) on construction and equipment installations, calculated based on the assumption that each megawatt of data center capacity in Japan costs between ¥2 billion and ¥2.5 billion, excluding the expense of AI accelerators like Nvidia's.
Written by urgent.news from Japan Times's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
