Reuters: Anthropic is nearing a deal with NTT Data to build a 500-megawatt data center in Osaka.
The site in western Japan would be Anthropic’s first in the country, rank among Japan’s largest, and could cost up to $6.3B to build.
Anthropic and NTT Data want to sign by the end of 2026, and partial operations could start as early as 2028.
The project would also reshape NTT Data’s own plans, because the group expects to spend at least $9B through 2033 to quadruple its Japanese computing capacity to 1 gigawatt.