ESR Group has completed the core and shell of the first facility at its flagship data centre project in Nanko Kita, Osaka, Japan.

The Cosmosquare OS1 data centre is the first facility to be completed at the campus. It is scheduled to be operational in May 2025, and will provide 25 MW of data centre capacity once fully fitted out.

The campus is being developed in three phases – OS1, OS2, and OS3 – which will together provide a total of 130 MW capacity.

The US$2 billion hyperscale campus is located within 10 km of the major internet and telecommunication exchanges in the Osaka central business district.

Stuart Gibson, ESR Group Co-Founder and Co-CEO, said, “We are delighted to reach this important milestone in our first Osaka data centre development, creating a campus-style asset with expansion capability in a prime location of a high growth market.

“This development is a flagship project in ESR’s strategic and accelerated rollout of data centres to capitalise on the unprecedented demand for high-performing digital infrastructure across key markets in APAC.”

Diarmid Massey, CEO of ESR Data Centres, added, “ESR’s Cosmosquare campus, which is backed by ESR DC Fund 1, is a notable showcase of our acceleration in strategy to cater to the regional growth of Cloud and Digital Infrastructure. We are fulfilling the growing customer need for data centre capacity, that is being turbocharged by the outsized AI demand that is quickly migrating to APAC.

“Our pipeline of hyperscale data centres will deliver next-generation environmentally focused solutions to our end customers and business partners to power the growth of digital infrastructure in Osaka and across APAC.”

ECR plans to develop 575 MW of committed data centre sites in key markets across APAC, with a pipeline of more than 2 GW worth of land and projects.