黑石集团支持的AirTrunk周三宣布，将在位于日本东部城市印斋的300多兆瓦超大规模数据中心园区追加投资10亿美元，以支持人工智能（AI）工作负载的运行。这笔投资将用于部署液冷技术，以优化AI系统的性能。该数据中心园区此前主要服务于云服务中的云计算工作负载。
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk said on Wednesday it was investing an additional $1 billion in its 300-plus-megawatt hyperscale data centre campus in the eastern Japanese city of Inzai to enable AI workloads. Investment is for liquid-cooling technology deployment to enable AI workload. Campus traditionally supported cloud workload for cloud services.
AirTrunk首席执行官罗宾·库达（Robin Khuda）表示，该园区很可能是日本首个大规模部署AI工作负载的数据中心。
TOK1 likely to be first campus in Japan to have large-scale AI workload deployment, CEO Robin Khuda says.
库达指出：‘由于地缘政治因素，越来越多的客户从北亚地区将目光投向日本。’
“Due to geopolitical reasons, we are seeing more and more customers looking to Japan from a North Asian perspective,” Khuda says.
他进一步解释说：‘在美国部署AI基础设施正变得越来越困难，而在欧洲也已经面临挑战，这使得亚洲成为受益者。’
Deploying AI infrastructure will get harder in the US, is already hard in Europe, making Asia a “big beneficiary,” Khuda says.