AirTrunk—the Australian data center operator backed by U.S. private equity giant Blackstone—is investing as much as $8 billion to scale up its capacity in Japan amid increased demand for cloud computing and AI infrastructure in the country.

The Sydney-based company said it plans to build a 100 megawatt hyperscale data center in West Osaka, dubbed OSK2, which would complement the existing 20MW OSK1. Airtrunk said it aims to ultimately expand OSK2’s capacity to 530MW in the next few........

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