14th October 2022, Kathmandu
Google will open its first data center in Japan by 2023. CEO Sundar Pichai announced his visit to Japan on his blog, saying that the company will open its first data center in the city of Inzai in China.
It is the first time since 2013 that Google is going to build a new data center in Asia. Google has already opened its data centers in Taiwan and Singapore.
Google says that through the new data center, users will have access to their services in a faster and simpler way. “Through this, in addition to supporting economic activity and employment, Japan can be connected to the global digital economy,” Pichai said in the blog post.
Google is establishing Tokyo and Osaka areas as its cloud area which has been providing storage and infrastructure services to the local system. The company has been establishing these areas as Google Cloud consumers by collaborating with Equinix. But now the company has announced that it will create its own data center for all its services.
In that blog post, the executive director of the company, Sundar Pichai, said that they will invest 730 million dollars by 2024 for the construction of data centers in the area. He mentioned that he met the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, and discussed Google’s plans for Japan’s digitization initiative.
Google is also leading the construction of a new subsea cable linking Japan and Canada called Topaz.