Blackstone-backed AirTrunk to invest $1 billion in Japan data centre campus

TOKYO, Oct 7 (Reuters) Blackstone-backed AirTrunk said on Wednesday it was ​investing an additional $1 ‌billion in its 300-plus-megawatt hyperscale data centre campus in the eastern Japanese ‌city ​of Inzai to ⁠enable AI workloads. • ⁠Investment is for liquid-cooling technology deployment to enable AI workload • Campus traditionally ​supported cloud workload for cloud services • ⁠TOK1 likely ⁠to be first ​campus in Japan to ​have large-scale AI workload deployment, ‌CEO Robin Khuda says • Due to geopolitical reasons, we are seeing more ⁠and more customers looking to Japan from a North Asian ⁠perspective,  Khuda ‌says • Deploying AI ⁠infrastructure will get ​harder ‌in the US, ​is already ⁠hard in Europe, making Asia a big beneficiary, Khuda says (Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Christian ​Schmollinger)