What happened
MC Digital Realty plans to open KIX15 in 2028 in the Saito area of Ibaraki, the fifth building of its KIX Campus. It will have about 1万7700平方メートル of floor space and 24MW of planned power capacity for servers.
Why it matters
KIX15 adds liquid cooling alongside conventional air cooling to serve generative AI's heavy computing needs, and is expected to be used by AI-related companies and cloud service providers.
What to watch
With KIX15's opening, MC Digital Realty's domestic data centers will total 10 buildings and about 220MW of server power capacity.
WHO IT HITSJapanese AI-related companies and cloud service providers looking for large-scale computing space in the Kansai region stand to gain, as the project also links with multiple telecom carriers for high-speed connections.
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KIX15 is the fifth building of the KIX Campus that MC Digital Realty has been developing in the Saito area, and the company frames it as part of the Kansai AI Infrastructure Co-creation Project, which works on power, cooling and communications infrastructure for AI-oriented computing equipment.
The design reflects what generative AI demands: because it requires far more computation than ordinary processing, the facility is planned with larger server power capacity and cooling equipment, including liquid cooling alongside the conventional air-based approach. The operator expects AI-related companies and cloud service providers to take up the space, and plans to work with multiple telecom carriers so tenants can reach data centers in Osaka and key sites in Japan and overseas at high speed.
MC Digital Realty itself was established in 2017 by Mitsubishi Corp. and U.S. data center company Digital Realty as an equal-investment joint venture, running domestic data centers and inter-company communications services.
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