By Shinnosuke Kurama / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer

Major Japanese trading house Toyota Tsusho Corp. and its wind power generation subsidiary will build a data center in Hokkaido that will be the first data center in Japan directly linked to a wind farm.

Toyota Tsusho and Eurus Energy Holdings Corp. on Wednesday announced that construction of the center will start in April in the city of Wakkanai, with full-scale operation eyed in 2027.

The data center, which will have a capacity of three megawatts, will be built in a 9,900-square-meter site adjacent to Kabaoka Wind Farm operated by Eurus Energy Holdings.

Furthermore, the two companies will build another data center with a capacity of 10-20 megawatts in northern Hokkaido around 2030. In the future, they aim to develop a data center hub with a total capacity of about 100 megawatts that will be directly linked to a wind farm. The location of the data center hub has yet to be decided.

According to the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, more than 80% of Japan's data centers are concentrated in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture and their surrounding areas. In December, a government expert panel called for Japan to consider having more data centers in areas other than Tokyo and its adjacent prefectures in a report estimating the damage of a major earthquake occurring directly beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area.

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