PAG Data Centre Unit Flow Breaks Ground on 30MW Central Tokyo Campus

Flow Digital Infrastructure has begun construction of a 30-megawatt data centre campus in central Tokyo, with the unit of Asia-focused private equity firm PAG aiming to meet hyperscale demand in one of the world’s biggest markets for server sheds.

The campus consists of two buildings, TK7 and TK8, near established data centre clusters in Otemachi and Toyosu, Flow said Tuesday in a release. The 6MW TK7 is expected to enter service in the first quarter of 2027.

The groundbreaking marks Flow’s first major announcement since a leadership reshuffle that saw the exit of former CEO Amandine Wang last year and the hiring of successor Sanjay Goel three months ago, followed swiftly by the departure of founding chairman Kris Kumar.

“This development marks a significant milestone in Flow’s expansion in Asia Pacific and underscores our commitment to Japan as a priority market,” Goel said. “We look forward to serving hyperscalers and enterprises with capacity needs in the central Tokyo area, offering solutions that address the market’s longstanding supply constraints and demand complexities.”

Growing in Japan

The addition of TK7 and TK8 expands Singapore-based Flow’s portfolio to 11 assets across Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Malaysia, totalling over 170MW of current and planned IT capacity.

The Tokyo project launch comes as Japan’s overall data centre market is projected to expand at a 10.8 percent compound annual growth rate through 2027, Flow said, citing data compiled by JLL.

The Flow campus is billed as one of the largest co-location data centre facilities in Greater Tokyo, where the hyperscale co-location segment has a forecast CAGR of 17 percent from 2024, according to Structure Research.

“It will provide customers with flexible, scalable and state-of-the-art solutions designed to meet the increasing demands driven by Japan’s accelerating digital economy and AI adoption,” Flow said.

Leadership Shake-Up

After serving as Flow chief executive from December 2021 until last October, Wang joined Singapore-based competitor Empyrion Digital as the Seraya Partners-backed platform’s chief commercial officer. In April of this year, Flow introduced Goel as the new CEO after he had served most recently on the regional leadership team at NYSE-listed telecom infrastructure firm American Tower.

In late June, Flow announced that chairman Kumar would be leaving the company to pursue philanthropic interests. Kumar had worked in telecom infrastructure for more than 30 years, including founding Bridge Data Centres, before helping to get Flow off the ground in 2021.

Another Singapore-based data centre rival, Princeton Digital Group, earlier this month signed agreements to receive a preferred equity investment of $1.3 billion from US fund manager Stonepeak, bringing PDG’s total capital raised in 2025 to $2.5 billion.

Manhattan-based Stonepeak’s long-term capital is intended to support the next phase of regional growth, both greenfield development and M&A, with US private equity major Warburg Pincus continuing to be PDG’s largest shareholder.

Stonepeak’s existing Singapore-based data centre portfolio company, Digital Edge, in January disclosed more than $1.6 billion in new equity and debt financing from institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds.