GLP-Backed Ada Breaks Ground on Second Building at Tokyo Data Centre Campus

Ada Infrastructure has begun construction of the second of three planned buildings at its Tokyo West 1 campus, with the GLP-backed business targeting a combined IT load capacity of 31 megawatts for the finished project.

The first building, which has been under construction since last year, is set to enter operation by mid-2025, Ada said Tuesday in a release. All three multi-storey buildings will feature air-cooling systems for typical hardware, plus liquid cooling for high-density workloads geared towards artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The expansion of the company’s first Tokyo campus is being driven by increased demand from enterprise and hyperscale customers, according to Ada, the digital infrastructure unit of GLP Capital Partners.

“The success of this project is the result of combining GLP Japan’s existing real estate portfolio and core capabilities in acquiring land for development with Ada Infrastructure’s team of data centre industry experts,” said Yoshiyuki Chosa, GCP’s Japan president.

Chasing Demand

Founded last year and named for a British mathematician credited with writing the world’s first computer program, Ada has four data centre projects in Tokyo and one in Osaka, representing more than 600MW of IT load.

The platform has 850MW of power available globally and more than 1.5 gigawatts in a project pipeline spanning Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas.

The operational capacity of APAC data centre markets has surpassed the 10GW mark, with 800MW of new supply added in the second half of 2023, bringing total regional live capacity to 10.6GW, Cushman & Wakefield said in a research report.

Nearly 80 percent of operational capacity is concentrated in the region’s top five markets: mainland China (3.9GW), Japan (1.3GW), Australia (1.2GW), India (1.1GW) and Singapore (962MW).

More Project Launches

The year to date has seen a steady stream of data centre news in Japan, including the March announcement of Singapore-based Keppel Ltd’s tie-up with real estate giant Mitsui Fudosan.

The private Keppel Data Centre Fund II has a framework agreement with Mitsui on the proposed forward purchase of an under-development facility in western Tokyo that will mark Temasek-backed Keppel’s first data centre project in Japan.

ESR this month revealed its development of a 60MW facility in Tokyo as the industrial giant’s fourth data centre location in Japan, while Gaw Capital Partners acquired a third property to add 38MW to its Greater Tokyo campus.

US tech giant Microsoft announced in April that it would invest $2.9 billion over two years to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in Japan.