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No . of Data Centres : 14 Regional Standing : Osaka is the fifth largest APAC data centre market outside of China

Major Operators : Telehouse , Digital Realty , KDDI

While Japan is one of the world ’ s most mature data centre markets as a whole , development is largely focused around the country ’ s largest population hub , Tokyo , where there were 57 active data centre facilities as of June 2021 . Osaka , by contrast , has a mere 14 . That number is rising steadily , however , with the city pegged in a recent report as the largest source of investment outside of Tokyo , including a recently announced 78 MW campus currently being built out by ESR Cayman and Hong Kong Logistics . Amazon Web Services ( AWS ), Google , Microsoft Azure , and IBM , are all expanding into the city , which has become a true hub for the Japanese tech sector in recent years . datacentremagazine . com 161