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KDDI’s Osaka Sakai Data Center is a converted former Sharp color-filter production facility within Green Front Sakai in Sakai City. The facility began operations in January 2026 and is designed for AI workloads using GPU infrastructure, direct liquid cooling, air cooling, and renewable energy.

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0.12 miles SoftBank: Sakai
SoftBank is converting part of Sharp's former LCD panel plant in Sakai, Osaka, into a large AI data center. SoftBank bought the site in 2025 and plans to expand its power capacity in phases.
3.14 miles SC Zeus: Osaka 1
SC Zeus, a leader in sustainable data center solutions, is developing Project ZEUS OSA 1 in Osaka, a campus that will comprise two buildings.
3.14 miles SC Zeus: Osaka 2
This facility is part of SC Zeus' Project Zeus OSA1 campus in Osaka.
3.18 miles CloudHQ: KIX3
This facility is part of CloudHQ's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
3.18 miles ESR Group: OS2
This facility is part of ESR Group's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
3.18 miles CloudHQ: KIX2
This facility is part of CloudHQ's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
3.20 miles CloudHQ: Cosmosquare KIX1
Strategically positioned in Nanko Kita, Osaka City, CloudHQ's Cosmosquare is a future-proof, three-phase hyperscale data center campus (KIX1, KIX2, KIX3).
3.20 miles ESR Group: Cosmosquare OS1
The newly completed data center is the first hyperscale facility within ESR's Cosmosquare campus. At full build-out, the US$2 billion campus will comprise three buildings.
3.21 miles ESR Group: OS3
This facility is part of ESR Group's Cosmosquare campus in Osaka.
5.23 miles NTT: OSK12 Bldg-2
6.24 miles Mapletree: Osaka
The multi-story facility is built on a 4,200 sqm site and offers 13,330 sqm of total space, including 12,720 sqm of lettable area. The property comes with a 70-year land lease that began October 1, 2020.
6.29 miles TISI: Osaka 2nd DC (Shinsaibashi gDC)
TISI data center in the Keihanshin Kitahorie Building, Nishi Ward, Osaka, opened in 2008 as Shinsaibashi gDC.
6.58 miles Equinix Osaka OS1
Opened in 2013, the first phase, with room for 320 cabinets is a US$12m investment. Once fully opened the site will carry 800 cabinets.
6.59 miles Optage: Shinmachi
6.65 miles INAP Osaka
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6.65 miles Optage: Shinsaibashi
The Shinsaibashi Data Center in central Osaka was launched in 2008. OPTAGE will establish a new connectivity area “Shinsaibashi POP (Point Of Presence)” within the existing Shinsaibashi Data Center in Osaka City By 2025.
6.66 miles Telehouse: Osaka Shinsaibashi
KDDI Telehouse operates a colocation data center in Shinsaibashi, Japan.
6.67 miles TISI: Osaka 3rd DC (Shinsaibashi gDC-EX)
TISI data center in the Keihanshin Nishi-Shinsaibashi Building, Osaka, opened in 2013 as Shinsaibashi gDC-EX.
6.93 miles NTT Osaka 5
7.09 miles NTT Osaka OS4
7.27 miles AirTrunk: OSK2 Expansion
7.27 miles AirTrunk: Osaka OSK2
AirTrunk’s newly announced OSK2 project is a massive hyperscale development located in East Osaka, designed specifically to meet the surging demand for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in the Kansai region.
7.27 miles Empyrion: Osaka JP2
7.39 miles Equinix: OS6
OS6 is Equinix's new retail colocation tower in Kyutaromachi, Chuo Ward, in central Osaka. The 13-story building is rising on a former parking lot beside Chuo-odori. Phase 1 opens in tranches from late 2027 through late 2028.
7.68 miles NTT OS3 (Telepark Dojima Building 3)
7.72 miles NTT Data Osaka Dojima (Building #4)
7.76 miles NTT: Osaka North 1(OSK12)
NTT Global Data Centers has officially broken ground on its Osaka North 1 (OSK12) data center in Ibaraki City, marking a significant expansion into one of Japan’s fastest-growing digital hubs.
8.09 miles NTT OS2 (Telepark Dojima Building 2)
8.37 miles Optage: Sonezaki
Named 'Optage Sonezaki Data Center,' the 14-story carrier-neutral facility will offer 24,100 square feet (2,250 square meters) of space and incorporate seismic isolation design for earthquake protection.
8.90 miles Telehouse: Osaka 2
Built as the major Telehouse Data Center for the west of Japan, The Osaka 2 Data Center facility began service on 21st August, 2015.
8.91 miles Digital Edge: Osaka OSA1
8.93 miles Equinix Osaka OS3
9.28 miles AirTrunk: Osaka OSK1
Located in West Osaka, the development consists of a 16,500sqm facility dedicated to high-scale cloud requirements.
9.33 miles TISI: Osaka 1st DC
TISI data center space inside OPTAGE's Umeda Kita building in Kita Ward, Osaka, opened in 2012.
9.33 miles SoftBank: Osaka No. 3
SoftBank data center inside OPTAGE's Umeda Kita data center building in Kita Ward, Osaka, in service since 2012.
9.38 miles Telehouse: Osaka Umeda
KDDI Telehouse operates a colocation data center in Umeda, Osaka.
9.38 miles Optage: Umeda North
This state-of-the-art data center began operations in 2012. The facility encompasses 11,534 square meters of gross floor area, with 4,000 square meters dedicated to colocation space containing 1,300 racks.
12.55 miles SoftBank: Osaka Suita
SoftBank data center in Suita, about 5 km from central Osaka, with dedicated links to the Dojima internet exchange.
12.76 miles Goldman Sachs: Higashiosaka
Goldman Sachs acquired land to build a data centre in Daito, Higashiosaka.
15.16 miles IIF Osaka Toyonaka
The IIF Osaka Toyonaka Data Center facility, constructed in September 1991, stands on a 4,769.70-square-meter plot of land. The building features a total floor area of 20,027.14 square meters.
16.60 miles ESR Group: Minoh, Osaka
ESR Group and Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) have formed a joint venture to develop the initial phase of a hyperscale data center in Minoh City, Osaka, Japan.
16.60 miles Colt: Minoh 1
ESR Group and Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) have formed a joint venture to develop the initial phase of a hyperscale data center in Minoh City, Osaka, Japan.
16.60 miles Colt: Minoh 2
This facility is part of Colt's Minoh Campus in Osaka, Japan.
18.70 miles Vantage: KIX12
This facility will be part of Vantage's Osaka (KIX1) Campus in Osaka, Japan.
18.73 miles Vantage: Osaka KIX11
Located in Ibaraki, the Osaka campus comprises 485,000 square feet (45,000 square meters) and features two four-story, state-of-the-art facilities built to withstand even the worst earthquakes.
18.76 miles MC Digital Realty: KIX14
KIX14 is a planned MC Digital Realty data center in Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture, east of Osaka. The design calls for a base-isolated building with four floors above ground. MC Digital Realty is the 50/50 joint venture of Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty.
18.88 miles Equinix: OS2x
18.90 miles ADA: Osaka East 1
GLP's data center subsidiary, Ada Infrastructure, plans to build a four-story data center in East Osaka, Japan. The site will feature an N+1 UPS distributed redundant and N+1 closed loop air-cooled chiller plant.
18.93 miles Equinix: OS4x
Equinix's fourth data center in Osaka, Japan, is connected to the adjacent OS2x in Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture. The facility has 4,925 square meters (53,025 square feet) of data center space.
18.95 miles NTT: Nishiai
NTT acquired eight acres in Osaka Nishiai to develop two data centers, with the first facility expected to open in fiscal year 2027.
18.95 miles Equinix: OS5x
18.96 miles NTT Osaka 7
19.01 miles MC Digital Realty: KIX15
KIX15 is MC Digital Realty's fifth data center on its KIX Campus in the Saito district of Ibaraki City, north of Osaka. The base-isolated building rises beside KIX10 and supports hybrid air and liquid cooling for hyperscale, cloud, and AI customers. MC Digital Realty is the 50/50 joint venture of Mitsubishi Corporation and Digital Realty.
19.06 miles MC Digital Osaka 2 (KIX11)
19.08 miles MC Digital Osaka 3 (KIX12)
19.10 miles MC Digital Osaka 1 (KIX10)
19.13 miles NRI: Osaka Data Center II Building 1
NRI's Osaka Data Center II is Nomura Research Institute's Kansai core and disaster-recovery data center in the Saito district of Ibaraki City. Building 1 opened in 2016 as a base-isolated facility certified to JDCC Tier 4. NRI runs its shared financial systems and outsourcing services here, and TIS markets colocation as GDC Osaka.
19.16 miles NRI: Osaka Data Center II Building 2
Building 2 of NRI's Osaka Data Center II opened in February 2023 beside Building 1 in the Saito district of Ibaraki City. The two buildings share power-receiving equipment and serve NRI's shared financial systems and outsourcing services.
19.18 miles MC Digital Osaka 4 (KIX13)
19.71 miles SoftBank: Nara Ikoma
SoftBank's Nara Ikoma Data Center sits on the former NEC Kansai Research Laboratories site in Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture, east of Osaka. Its first building opened in October 2025 and supports air-cooled and direct liquid-cooled racks for AI and GPU workloads. A second building is planned on the same site.

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