{"id":561020,"date":"2026-08-06T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561020\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:24:11","slug":"uae-wealth-fund-in-talks-to-back-one-of-japans-biggest-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561020\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE wealth fund in talks to back one of Japan&#8217;s biggest data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260806N Akita wind farm\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Akita prefecture is known for its abundance of renewable energy projects that can power data centers.\u00a0(Photo by Toshihisa Suzuki)<\/p>\n<p>TOSHIHISA SUZUKI AND SOTARO YUMAE<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">AKITA, Japan\/TOKYO &#8212; One of Japan&#8217;s biggest data centers is to be built in the northern city of Akita at an expected cost of roughly 2 trillion yen ($12.6 billion), backed by international investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Akita prefecture is known for its abundance of renewable energy projects that can power data centers.\u00a0(Photo by Toshihisa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,1863,6326,10473,3105,295,16847,111,139,69,5270,301,145,4719,3912],"class_list":["post-561020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-back","tag-biggest","tag-centers","tag-data","tag-fund","tag-japans","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-talks","tag-technology","tag-uae","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}