Data Centre Magazine March 2026, Issue 40 | Page 55

technology requirements continue to change, SC Zeus will continue refining its design and delivery approach to support the next phase of AI compute growth.
Q. WHY JAPAN – AND WHY OSAKA IS THE NEXT AI COMPUTE HUB?

» Japan is rapidly emerging as a strategic AI compute hub in Asia due to its political stability, advanced infrastructure, strong enterprise demand and increasing adoption of AI across industries. Within Japan, Osaka stands out as a particularly compelling location.

Osaka benefits from a relatively diversified power ecosystem, strong interconnection to national grids and a growing concentration of data centre and digital infrastructure investment in the Kansai region. With Tokyo facing increasing land and power constraints, global cloud and AI companies are naturally expanding into Osaka to support latencysensitive workloads and regional redundancy.
SC Zeus’ presence in Osaka positions us at the centre of this shift. By developing AI-ready facilities
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