East Asia AI Data Center Feed

SoftBank is developing what is slated to be Japan’s largest AI data center in Tomakomai, Hokkaido. Announced in partnership with NVIDIA in November 2024, the facility will be the first in the world to receive NVIDIA DGX B200 systems (Blackw

Microsoft is set to launch the "Taiwan North" Azure region for general availability in 2026, representing its largest investment in Taiwan in over 30 years. The region is designed to comprise multiple data center facilities and is specifica

SK Group and AWS announced a 15-year partnership to build a data center in Ulsan, South Korea for a new AWS AI Zone, with operations expected to begin in 2027. SK Group says it will lead construction while AWS establishes the AI Zone, bring

ABCI 3.0 is AIST's latest AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure platform at AIST Kashiwa, within the University of Tokyo Kashiwa II Campus in Kashiwa, Chiba. ABCI says the platform started full-scale operation in August 2018 and was upgraded to

SK Telecom says it plans to build additional global partnerships and make further investments in its Ulsan AIDC, expanding it to a 1 GW-scale capacity. The company's November 2025 press release frames Ulsan as one of several AIDC hubs in Ko

Microsoft announced a $2.9 billion (¥440 billion) investment in April 2024 to significantly expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in Japan, its largest-ever investment in the country. This expansion doubles the company’s existing computing

DTDATA reports that the Volcengine Inner Mongolia Horinger Computing Center formally started construction in Horinger New Area in November 2024. The source says the project is being built in two phases: Phase 1 with eight data-center buildi

The Cyberport Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Centre (AISC) is Hong Kong's first large-scale, government-backed AI computing facility. Phase 1 officially commenced operations in December 2024 with a computing power of 1,300 Petaflops

DeepSeek's AI training cluster in Hangzhou, operated by parent company High-Flyer Quant (幻方科技), gained global attention in early 2025 when its DeepSeek-R1 and V3 models matched GPT-4-class performance at a fraction of the training cost — re

Kakao's cloud data center campus supports KakaoCloud — Korea's third-largest cloud provider — and hosts the AI models powering Kakao's vast consumer platform (KakaoTalk, KakaoMap, Kakao T ride-sharing, and others used by 90%+ of South Korea

SenseTime's next-generation Artificial Intelligence Data Center in the Lingang New Area of Shanghai commenced operation on January 24, 2022. SenseTime says the AIDC has 3.74 exaFLOPS of designed computing capacity and brings the company's t

Tencent Tianjin High-Tech Cloud Data Center opened on August 26, 2022 in Bolong Lake Science and Technology Park in Tianjin's High-tech Zone. IDCNova reports a 10 billion yuan investment, 15,000 racks, and capacity for 300,000 servers, with

Huawei Cloud's Guizhou data center cluster in Guiyang, the provincial capital of Guizhou, is a major hub for training the Pangu (盘古) large model family, which includes language, vision, and scientific AI models. Guizhou was designated China

AWS expanded its Japan presence with the AP Northeast 3 Osaka Region, launched as a full multi-AZ region in March 2021 after operating as a Local Region since 2011. The Osaka region provides geographic redundancy for AWS Japan customers, th

Alibaba Cloud's Zhangbei Super Data Center sits on the windswept Bashang Plateau in Hebei Province, 260 kilometers northwest of Beijing. The campus is specifically designed for AI training workloads powering the Tongyi Qianwen (通义千问) large

Google Cloud's Seoul region (asia-northeast3) launched in 2020, making South Korea Google's third Asia Pacific region after Tokyo and Singapore. With South Korea ranking among the world's highest AI-adoption economies — home to Samsung, LG,

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's South Korea region, operating from Seoul since 2020, is OCI's flagship footprint in the Korean market. South Korea's large manufacturing and semiconductor sector relies on Oracle's database-centric AI services

AWS has significantly deepened its AI-focused infrastructure in Hong Kong as part of a multi-billion dollar regional strategy. In May 2025, AWS and Cyberport launched a Joint Innovation Center (JIC) to accelerate AI adoption among local ent

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Japan East region in Tokyo is Oracle's primary cloud hub for the Japanese market. Japan is one of Oracle's largest enterprise markets globally, and the Tokyo region hosts Oracle Autonomous Database, OCI AI serv

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Japan East region (Tokyo) is one of OCI's major APAC deployments, offering GPU-intensive compute for AI training and inference workloads. Oracle has aggressively expanded its Japan presence — announcing a $8 bi

Microsoft Azure Korea Central — the Seoul region — is Microsoft's primary South Korean cloud and AI infrastructure hub, launched in 2017 alongside the paired Korea South (Busan) region. Operating facilities in the Seoul metropolitan area, i

AWS's Seoul region (AP Northeast 2), launched in January 2016, is one of Amazon's fastest-growing cloud regions globally. South Korea's position as a semiconductor powerhouse — home to Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's largest memory chip m

Alibaba Cloud's Japan region, operating from Tokyo since 2016, serves the company's Japanese enterprise customer base and acts as a gateway for Chinese companies doing AI business in Japan. The Japan region hosts Alibaba's AI Platform PAI (

Baidu's official Yangquan article says Baidu Cloud Computing (Shanxi) Co. is one of Baidu's largest self-built data centers in Asia, founded in 2012, located in the Yangquan development zone, with 120,000 square meters of park building area

Naver's Gak data center in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, is South Korea's first and largest hyperscale data center operated by a domestic internet company. Opened in 2013, Gak serves as the primary training and inference site for HyperCLOVA

NAVER's Spring Cloud data center in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, is South Korea's largest internet company's primary AI compute facility. NAVER uses the facility for training and serving HyperCLOVA X — one of the largest language models bui

Amazon Web Services AP-NORTHEAST-1 — the Tokyo region — is AWS's flagship Asia-Pacific AI cloud region, launched in March 2011 and one of the largest and most sophisticated AWS deployments globally. Operating across four availability zones

AirTrunk’s TOK1 campus in Inzai City, Chiba Prefecture — located in Tokyo’s eastern data center corridor — is undergoing a major 2026 expansion backed by a ¥180 billion (~$1.24 billion) green loan, the largest sustainability-linked data cen

Google’s Changhua campus is its largest data center in Asia, evolving into a critical hub for global AI operations. In 2024–2025, Google significantly expanded the site’s AI infrastructure, supported by a landmark 300 MW solar procurement d

SoftBank is building a 150 MW AI data center at the former Sharp LCD factory site in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, with completion targeted for late 2026. The facility is purpose-built to host NVIDIA Blackwell GPU systems (DGX B200 and GB20

The Nvidia-Foxconn AI Factory in Kaohsiung is Taiwan's largest advanced AI supercomputing center, scheduled to become operational in the first half of 2026. Representing a $1.4 billion investment, the facility is the first in Asia to deploy

The AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, officially launched in June 2025 and fully operational by 2026, represents a multi-billion dollar long-term investment in Taiwan’s digital economy. The region consists of three Availability Zones optimi

Completed in January 2026, Naver’s "B200 4K Cluster" is the largest AI computing cluster in South Korea at launch, featuring 4,000 NVIDIA B200 Blackwell GPUs in a tightly integrated high-density cluster. Located within Naver’s "GAK Sejong"

In November 2025, Google inaugurated its largest AI infrastructure hardware engineering center outside the United States in Taipei. This flagship hub focuses on the design, testing, and optimization of custom AI accelerators (TPUs) and high