New facility in Osaka could cost $6.3bn to construct, with partial opening by 2028
Anthropic's first dedicated data center in Japan is expected to be built by NTT Data Group and would have one of the largest processing capacities in the country. (Source photos by Reuters and Hikaru Yagi)
KOSUKE SHIMIZU, KATSUYUKI TANIMOTO and SHUGO TAMURA
October 13, 2026 11:00 JST
TOKYO/OSAKA -- NTT Data Group is in the final stages of talks to build a data center in western Japan for U.S. AI company Anthropic, multiple sources have told Nikkei.