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Japan Data Center Update 13: New Data Center Models Emerge as Land, Cooling, and Grid Constraints Tighten

Publication date: April 7, 2026  Japan Data Center Update 13: New Data Center Models Emerge as Land, Cooling, and Grid Constraints Tighten  MOL, Hitachi Target Floating Data Centers to Ease Urban Deployment Bottlenecks Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Hitachi, and Hitachi Systems have signed a basic agreement to jointly develop a “floating data center” by converting …

Japan Data Center Market Update 9: Japan’s Data Center Market Shift Toward Edge and High-Speed Optical Infrastructure

Publication date: March 10, 2026  Japan Data Center Market Update 9: Japan’s Data Center Market Shift Toward Edge and High-Speed Optical Infrastructure MHI Launches DIAVAULT, an On-site Edge AI Data Center for Real-time Processing On February 24th, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched its proprietary industrial edge data center solution, “DIAVAULT,” designed for on-premise AI inference use …