Addressing the growing demand for cloud services in Tokyo, Japan, Equinix, a digital infrastructure company, has announced the opening of TY13x, its second Tokyo-based xScale data centre. The new facility will serve the unique core workload deployment needs of hyperscale companies, including the world’s largest cloud service providers.
International Data Corporation forecasts the public cloud services market in Japan will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.8% from 2021 to 2026, and that the market size in 2026 will reach 4,279.5 billion yen, about 2.6 times that of 2021. The opening of TY13x is timely to support the world’s largest cloud service providers in delivering solutions and services that support businesses and the economy in Japan. As hyperscale companies scale their operations at Equinix, more than 10,000 customers deployed on the platform will benefit from increased opportunities to directly connect to the largest cloud service providers.
TY13x is the 12th xScale data centre opened in a global portfolio of hyperscale joint ventures that when closed and fully built out, are expected to scale to more than US$8 billion of investment across 36 facilities globally with more than 720MW of power capacity.
Located in the Inzai region and in adjacent to TY12x, TY13x provides 8MW in the first phase and will provide a total capacity of 36MW at full build. Equinix operates 11 Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in Tokyo.
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