Japan plans to launch an investment plan with a scale of 140 billion US dollars, relying on strong domestic natural gas trading companies to accelerate data center construction and strive to become the world's leading AI infrastructure hub. Three companies, including Dell and Gela, the world's largest gas trader, reached an agreement on Thursday to build a data center costing 15 billion US dollars and 400 megawatts of power around Tokyo. The project was funded by Apollo. Yukio Kani, CEO of Gela Global, said in an interview that the three companies plan to build a 3-4 gigawatt AI data center and supporting gas power generation infrastructure within five years. “The core principle is to quickly achieve power supply guarantee.” he said. The company can trade 35 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year and can supply fuel for power plants. According to his estimates, the construction of 1 gigawatt of related infrastructure requires an investment of 350 to 450 billion US dollars. Based on this estimate, the total investment to complete infrastructure construction of this scale will reach 140 billion US dollars.

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