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The Kansai region, centered on Osaka, is a rapidly growing market for data center businesses, second only to the Tokyo metropolitan area, which is the largest in the Asia-Pacific region. As corporate DX (digital transformation) progresses, there is a wide range of demand not only from local companies but also from domestic and foreign companies. […]

With an increasing reliance on digital technology, the data center industry is experiencing impressive growth, is relatively immune to continued economic uncertainty, and is being viewed by investors and financial institutions as a strong alternative asset class. It’s getting attention.   Expansion of market size   According to a report published by Global Market Insights […]

As competition in data center investment and development intensifies, DC operators, DC developers and investors involved in data center business (hereinafter referred to as “DC operators, etc.”) It is desirable to utilize the CRE strategy in order to optimize the earnings of the data center business while eliminating competition with other companies as much as […]

In order to realize data center investment as soon as possible, it is important to know and become familiar with the trends of data centers, which will be in increasing demand in the future. Demand for network communications is expected to grow significantly in the future due to the spread of telework, cloud computing, and […]

CBRE (Japan headquarters: Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) has launched a dedicated data center page (search site) on PROPERTY SEARCH, one of the largest commercial real estate portal sites in Japan operated by CBRE, as part of its “Leasing Services for Data Center Use (search site) on PROPERTY SEARCH, the largest commercial real estate portal site operated […]

In the past, we introduced the following three conditions for determining the location of a data center that can operate stably in Japan. (1) elimination of communication delays and redundancy (2) High power consumption and redundancy (3) Measures against natural disasters These three factors were introduced in this report. In this issue, we will focus […]

List of Adopted Businesses   On June 27, 2022, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) announced the results of the first round of public solicitation for the “Project for Strengthening Digital Infrastructure by Distributing Data Centers, Submarine Cables, etc. in Local Areas”. The selected businesses are as follows Indirect Subsidiaries Location Ishikari Enedata […]

When geothermal heat utilization is mentioned, “geothermal power generation” comes to mind, and instability is pointed out. However, since geothermal heat always maintains a constant temperature, it can also be used for heating and cooling through heat exchange. Digital Infrastructure Lab visited Mr. Masakatsu Sasada, an authority on the use of geothermal heat (President of […]