Google To Open First Japan Data Center To Accelerate Asia Push

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Alphabet's Google will open its first data center in Japan next year as part of increasing investment in the world's third-biggest economy. The new facility, based in Inzai City, Chiba, will accelerate the operation of Google tools and services and support economic activity and jobs, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post Friday. It's part of a broader $730 million investment in local infrastructure by the US company, which began last year and will extend through 2024. Google is also leading the construction of a new subsea cable linking Japan and Canada, called Topaz. The Chiba data center will be the company's third location in Asia, after Taiwan and Singapore, and will support its efforts to connect Japan to the rest of the global economy, Pichai said. "Google's partnership in Japan is now deeper than ever," Pichai said in a surprise appearance at Google's Pixel 7 and Pixel Watch launch event in Tokyo. "Japan has a history of being at the forefront of the world's most advanced technologies."

Why is this discussion worthy?

[sixminuteabs]

Why is this news? Here is news- the 2 elephants in cloud computing have been in Japan for years. That the also-ran is now following suit is not much of an event

Well, maybe COLO prices will start to come down.

[fatalcharade]

Seems like the Yakuza controls colo prices in Japan. Prices are outrageous. I have wanted to launch a new rack at a datacenter there since before the pandemic.