The announcement comes in the midst of a purple patch for AirTrunk, and the sector more generally, buoyed by the soaring demand for cloud computing.
“A surge in artificial intelligence applications and enterprise cloud adoption is driving huge demand for critical digital infrastructure in key markets across Japan,” said AirTrunk founder and chief executive, Robin Khuda.including in Australia, across a platform that will offer more than 1.4 gigawatts. The plan for a third Japanese data centre follows hard on the heels of recent announcements for a second data centre in Hong Kong, and its first in Malaysia.
There is plenty of capacity coming on the platform as well, with AirTrunk building a $1 billion-plus hyperscale data centre inAt 110 megawatts, TOK2 is expected to be smaller than its 300-megawatt predecessor in Tokyo, which took AirTrunk four years and $5 billion to establish.