Japan Gateway Infrastructure (NGI) operates four data-center buildings in Kanagawa and Kobe acquired from NEC and intends to market capacity not retained by NEC. The platform also says it is considering new builds, data-center acquisitions and refurbishment of facilities slated for closure.
NVIDIA is reportedly helping finance a 12 GW data center campus that OpenAI is building in Ohio with SoftBank Energy, according to a single secondary-source report. The reported capacity refers to the total project, although the source does not define the power metric or disclose the project’s delivery status.
Google submitted a 2022 project modification to shift the planned Cerrillos Data Center in Santiago to air cooling after environmental objections to its original groundwater use. In 2024, Chile’s Second Environmental Court ordered a reassessment of the project’s impact on the aquifer, including climate-change considerations.
Infineon Technologies acquired Indian company C2i Semiconductors on 24 August, adding digital power-management technology for AI servers and vertical-power capabilities. The acquisition targets a part of the AI infrastructure stack where higher compute densities are increasing the importance of efficient power conversion and delivery.
OpenAI has hired Yvette Eden Ruiz, who spent 12 years at JPMorgan Chase, for its Community Engagement Team. The move comes as public and political opposition to data-center development increasingly affects the ability to expand large-scale compute infrastructure.
At Tokyo has announced plans to expand services and connection points on its ATBeX platform in the Osaka area, with phased implementation scheduled to begin in November 2026. The initiative includes planned redundant connectivity to the AWS Direct Connect location at Telehouse OSAKA2 and two connection-service options for the AWS Osaka Region.
Japan’s optical-infrastructure ecosystem is advancing manufacturing, standards and network trials aimed at AI data centers and distributed GPU deployments. S1 reported that Tokyo data-center inventory exceeded 1 GW in the first quarter of 2026, alongside initiatives spanning high-density connectors, multicore fiber and all-photonic connectivity.
Marco Allikson, a partner at Baltic Energy Partners, has argued that Estonia should draw on Finland’s experience and consider the strategic attraction of data centers as part of a more resilient energy market. The comments are an expert view, not a government decision or a confirmed data-center project.
Toshiba International Corporation and DIMAAG-AI have announced a collaboration to develop an energy-storage system for AI data centers. The companies plan to integrate Toshiba’s lithium-titanate SCiB cells into DIMAAG’s ZettaWatt Power Platform to manage rapid load swings, provide backup power and support grid stability.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said the company remains confident of roughly 70% revenue growth next year, while describing supply-chain manufacturing capacity—not demand—as the primary constraint. He also said NVIDIA is monitoring land, power availability and data hall capacity alongside component supply for data center build-outs.
d-Matrix has announced plans to adopt NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for its new Raptor XPU and to join NVIDIA’s AI platform partner ecosystem. The company intends to use NVIDIA MGX infrastructure components, including standardized rack designs, power delivery and liquid cooling, for AI-inference deployments.
Google AI and Infrastructure executive Amin Vahdat said AI infrastructure bottlenecks can shift rapidly among compute, power and memory, requiring short-cycle adjustments to resource allocation. Speaking at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, he also highlighted workload-specific TPU designs, reduced data movement and dynamic cooling as areas of hardware development.
A TechNews report citing research from TrendForce says data-center and AI infrastructure demand is shifting the fiber-optic market away from its traditional telecom cycle. The report forecasts 75.9% year-on-year growth in data-center fiber demand in 2026, alongside 92% global industry utilization.
Huawei has demonstrated a 7.2Tbps near-packaged optics (NPO) solution at the China International Optoelectronic Exposition and said it intends to deploy the technology in its superPoD supercomputing systems. The company is also pursuing an NPO specification through the Optical Internetworking Forum, although the proposal has not yet become an official OIF standard.
NVIDIA has announced a framework with eight Australian cloud and data-center infrastructure operators to prepare up to 2 GW of AI infrastructure by 2027. The figure is a maximum programme target, not operational capacity or a confirmed construction pipeline.
US-Armenian startup Firebird AI has opened a compute data center in Hrazdan, Kotayk Province, Armenia, built on NVIDIA technologies. The sole provided source describes the facility as the region’s largest and says Firebird secured a US export licence for NVIDIA B200 accelerators destined for Armenia in November 2025.
The US House of Representatives is expected to consider the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act next week. The bill would require state utility regulators to consider rules under which data centers bear part of the cost of new generation needed to serve their electricity demand.
An analysis of disclosures by Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle argues that more than $1 trillion in widely discussed future infrastructure commitments should not be treated as existing debt. It also highlights Meta’s reported use of off-balance-sheet special-purpose vehicles to finance data centers, alongside guarantees to bondholders.
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has included Nanto, Toyama Prefecture, in the first group of GX Strategic Areas. The designation is linked to measures intended to encourage data-center investment, secure land and assess coexistence with the local community.
Nanto City in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, has been identified as a GX strategic region, with reported measures aimed at encouraging data center investment. The available source headline references land provision and an assessment of coexistence with the local community.