IIJ Expands "Shirai Data Center Campus" --- Construction of Phase 2 Building (ZDNet Japan) --Yahoo! News

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IIJ Expands "Shirai Data Center Campus" -Image of Construction of Phase-2 Building

The Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) has decided to add a second building to its data center "Shirai Data Center Campus" (Shirai DCC). Construction will begin in May 2022 and will start operation in April 2023. The second building has an area of ​​about 8,000 square meters (the total site area of ​​Shirai DCC is about 40,000 square meters) and has a capacity of about 1100 racks. The air conditioning system is a direct outside air cooling system, the electrical equipment is a three-phase 4-wire UPS, and the power receiving capacity is 10 MW. Shirai DCC, which is installed in Shirai City, Chiba Prefecture, actively adopts new technologies such as the latest energy-saving technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and operation automation by robots, and is full-scale digital transformation (DX), AI and IoT. As a data center that can meet the needs of large-scale digital data processing due to widespread use, the first phase of the building started operation in May 2019. In addition to being able to directly connect to IIJ's various network services and cloud service facilities, the second building will have a base for providing JPNAP Tokyo service, which is an Internet exchange (IX) service, at Shirai DCC in March. It will also be possible to interconnect with content providers and Internet connection providers. For air conditioning equipment, we will adopt an "outside air cooling air conditioning system" that reduces power consumption and a "wall blowout air conditioning" that can efficiently transport air conditioning. The electrical equipment will adopt a three-phase four-wire UPS to efficiently supply 200 volts, and will also promote the leveling of power demand by peak cutting and peak shift of air conditioning power using lithium-ion storage batteries. As for carbon-neutral efforts, we will work on installing on-site mega solar power generation facilities and procuring power from off-site power generation facilities in the future. For patrols of data center equipment, we will proceed with demonstrations of patrols using drones in addition to ground-based robots. In addition to business automation based on robotic process automation (RPA) / runbook automation (RBA) infrastructure, we will promote further automation of data center operation work by robots, such as unmanned admission work.