NTT has announced it is to invest approximately 40 billion yen through NTT Global Data centres (NTT GDC) to build the new Keihanna Data Centre in Kyoto Prefecture in Japan.
NTTCommunications (NTTCom) plans to start providing services in the second half of the fiscal year 2025.
The Kansai region in the Osaka Prefecture is a rapidly growing market for data centre businesses, second only to the Tokyo metropolitan area, which is the largest in the Asia-Pacific region. As corporate Digital Transformation continues to advance, there is a large demand from local, national and global companies to provide a wide range of services.
These services include expanding bases for IoT and software development verification and establishing secondary centres and Disaster Recovery centre bases to promote sustainable management.
Due to these growing demands, the market size in the Kansai region is expected to expand to about 500MW in power capacity by 2026. To meet these demands, NTT GDC will establish the Data Centre in Kyoto Prefecture and NTT Com will provide the data centre-related services.
NTT Group is working on Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN), a network and information processing infrastructure including terminals that can provide high-speed, high-capacity communications and vast computing resources. While accelerating this research, NTT and NTT Com will utilise the data centre as the hub for providing IOWN-based commercial services in the future.
