TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp. plans to build a data center on property where JFE Holding once operated a blast furnace in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture, as it strives to meet the growing demand from power-thirsty generative artificial intelligence and other systems.
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Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. and JFE to build AI data center at old furnace site
Demand for AI-related processing spurs scramble for vacant factory locations
JFE Steel's blast furnace in Kanagawa prefecture will give way to a data center in 2030 (photo from September 2023). © Kyodo
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