Blackstone-backed AirTrunk to invest $1 billion in Japan data centre campus
TOKYO, Oct 7 : Blackstone-backed AirTrunk said on Wednesday it was investing an additional $1 billion in its 300-plus-megawatt hyperscale data centre campus in the eastern Japanese city of Inzai to enable AI workloads.
- Investment is for liquid-cooling technology deployment to enable AI workload
- Campus traditionally supported cloud workload for cloud services
- TOK1 likely to be first campus in Japan to have large-scale AI workload deployment, CEO Robin Khuda says
CNA Games Guess Word Crack the word, one row at a time Buzzword Create words using the given letters Mini Sudoku Tiny puzzle, mighty brain teaser Mini Crossword Small grid, big challenge Word Search Spot as many words as you can Show More Show Less • "Due to geopolitical reasons, we are seeing more and more customers looking to Japan from a North Asian perspective," Khuda says • Deploying AI infrastructure will get harder in the US, is already hard in Europe, making Asia a "big beneficiary," Khuda says
- "Due to geopolitical reasons, we are seeing more and more customers looking to Japan from a North Asian perspective," Khuda says
- Deploying AI infrastructure will get harder in the US, is already hard in Europe, making Asia a "big beneficiary," Khuda says
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