Zeus Data Centers Breaks Ground on Major Osaka Facility, Marking Japan Debut
December 3, 2025
Asia Pacific's data center market continues to attract significant investment as regional demand for digital infrastructure, particularly to support artificial intelligence and cloud computing, surges. In a key development, Zeus Data Centers, a joint venture between Singapore's SC Capital Partners and Abner Investments, has commenced construction on its first facility in Japan, signaling a strategic expansion into one of the region's most critical digital hubs.
The company announced this week that it has broken ground on the Zeus OSA1 data center in Osaka's Nanko district. This inaugural project in Japan involves a substantial campus spanning 13,955 square meters (150,210 square feet). The facility is designed for a total IT load of 70 megawatts, which will be delivered in two phases of construction. To support this capacity, the site has secured a dedicated 100-megawatt power allocation from Kansai Electric Power Company.
In a statement highlighting the facility's advanced capabilities, Zeus noted that the Osaka campus will be engineered to support liquid cooling technologies, enabling it to accommodate high-density computing workloads of up to 130 kilowatts per rack. This specification positions the facility to serve the intensive power requirements of next-generation AI and high-performance computing applications.
The Osaka project follows Zeus's earlier announcement of plans for a facility in Seoul, South Korea, underscoring its ambition to become a pan-Asian data center operator. For SC Capital Partners, a private real estate investment firm founded in 2004 with a diverse portfolio across the Asia Pacific, the Zeus venture represents its first major foray into the digital infrastructure sector. The move reflects a broader trend of traditional capital pivoting towards the high-growth data center asset class.
Analysts view the ground-breaking as a significant step in bolstering Osaka's position as a key data center cluster in Japan, complementing the established Tokyo market. The addition of 70MW of new, high-density-ready capacity is expected to alleviate supply constraints and cater to growing demand from both domestic enterprises and international cloud providers seeking geographic diversification and resilience within the country.
Source: datacenterdynamics
Zeus Data Centers Breaks Ground on Major Osaka Facility, Marking Japan Debut
