Colt breaks ground on Osaka data center

Colt Data Centre Services has commenced construction of its next hyperscale data center with a ground-breaking ceremony in Japan.

The 42,000-square-meter (452,084-square-foot), 45-megawatt facility will be located in Keihanna Science City, in the Kansai area. The site will be ready to service Colt DCS customers in early 2023.

The ground-breaking for this site followed the Colt DCS announcement of Fidelity’s joint venture with Mitsui to provide advanced hyperscale data centers in Japan, with potential further growth in APAC.

“There has been a surge in cloud service demand throughout Japan, all of which requires carrier-neutral network access in the region, as well as disaster recovery sites,” commented Quy Nguyen, vice president, global accounts and solutions at DCS. “Combined with the fact that the Kansai region of Japan has a