U.S. investor APL plans $2bn data centers in Japan's Fukuoka

Prefecture becoming hub for power-hungry semiconductor and AI sectors

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The 300-megawatt data center cluster would be the largest on the Japanese island of Kyushu. © Reuters

AMI KUROSAWA, Nikkei staff writer

FUKUOKA, Japan -- U.S. investment company Asia Pacific Land (APL) announced on Thursday that it will build data centers with a total receiving capacity of 300 megawatts in southern Japan's Fukuoka prefecture, which is expected to be the largest such cluster on the southernmost main island of Kyushu.

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