Publication date: June 3, 2026 Japan Data Center Update 20: Google’s Japan Data Center Gets Hourly Proof of Green Power — and the GHG Protocol May Consider Similar Ideas JERA Cross Tests Hourly Matching Using NFCs for Google Data Center JERA Cross announced that, as part of a demonstration project, it generated hourly certificates for …
Publication date: May 26, 2026 Japan Data Center Update 19: Government and Industry Push Integrated Approaches to Data Center Development Ministry of the Environment Offers Up to JPY 1 Billion for Low-Carbon Data Center Projects The Ministry of the Environment (MoE) launched a tender for subsidies supporting data center decarbonization through energy efficiency improvements and …
Publication date: March 31, 2026 Japan Data Center Update 12: Data Center Expansion Drives Infrastructure Upgrades and New Deployment Models TEPCO PG Expands Inzai Substation as Data Center Demand Surges in Chiba Inzai City hosts dozens of data centers, including facilities operated by Google, and electricity demand from data centers is rapidly accelerating. Applications indicate …
Publication date: March 24, 2026 Japan Data Center Update 11: Managing Community Relations in Japan’s Data Center Expansion HIGHRESO Combines AI Data Center Expansion with Local Workforce Training in Akita HIGHRESO, a provider of GPU cloud services, will establish an AI data center in Oga City, Akita Prefecture. The facility will repurpose the former Haraido …
Publication date: Feb 24, 2026 Japan Data Center Market Update 6: Renewable Procurement and Low Latency Increasingly Dictate Data Center Locations and Design JERA and AWS Explore Renewable Power Supply Partnership for Data Centers JERA announced on February 5 that it has begun discussions with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deepen collaboration across both the …
Publication date: Feb 10, 2026 Data Center Market Update 4: DC Growth Drives Power Integration and Hyperscale Development Japan to Pilot Workload Migration to Align Data Centers With Surplus Electricity The Nikkei reported that Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will launch a demonstration project in spring 2026 to connect geographically dispersed data …
