{"id":242850,"date":"2026-08-18T09:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/akita-eyes-ai-data-center-that-could-become-japans-largest"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:04:46","slug":"akita-eyes-ai-data-center-that-could-become-japans-largest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/akita-eyes-ai-data-center-that-could-become-japans-largest","title":{"rendered":"Akita eyes AI data center that could become Japan\u2019s largest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/akita-eyes-ai-data-center-that-could-become-japans-largest.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A plan is underway to build an artificial intelligence data center in Akita Prefecture that could become Japan\u2019s largest.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is being led by S2, a server management firm based in the city of Akita, and U.S. startup Bitgrit, with the total construction cost estimated at \u00a52 trillion ($12.5 billion).<\/p>\n<p>The firms are cooperating with Akita Prefecture and the city of Akita with an aim to make the data center a hub to attract AI-related businesses and human resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plan is underway to build an artificial intelligence data center in Akita Prefecture that could become Japan\u2019s largest. The plan is being led by S2, a server management firm based in the city of Akita, and U.S. startup Bitgrit, with the total construction cost estimated at \u00a52 trillion ($12.5 billion). The firms are cooperating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}