HPE and KDDI Corporation announced they are collaborating to open the Osaka Sakai Data Center by early 2026 to support startups and enterprises with NVIDIA AI infrastructure for developing AI applications and training large language models (LLMs).

Through the collaboration, KDDI and HPE will deploy a rack-scale system featuring the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform built by HPE, based on the latest NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, within the Osaka Sakai Data Center. The Osaka Sakai Data Center takes advantage of hybrid cooling technology, which combines air cooling and direct liquid cooling, to reduce the facility’s environmental impact.

Additionally, KDDI and HPE will jointly promote services delivered from the Osaka Sakai Data Center to accelerate the prevalence and adoption of AI solutions among businesses and consumers in Japan and globally.

The rapid advancement of AI technology has created a pressing need for large-scale, high-performance AI infrastructure. To address this demand, KDDI is building an AI data center in Sakai City within the Osaka Prefecture of Japan, to support accelerated development of trillion parameter generative AI models.