Real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners has acquired land in Japan, just outside Tokyo, for a data center.

The company recently announced it has acquired a property located in Fuchu Intelligent Park, Fuchu City, through a fund under its management. The property will be demolished and redeveloped into a data center.

The property is situated near the Meito Sangyo and Fuchu Buildings in Fuchu Intelligent Park, which Gaw is also developing data centers on. The sites were acquired in 2021 and 2022 respectively by funds under Gaw Capital’s management and are currently being developed into carrier-neutral Tier III-quality data centers as Phase I and II.

Spanning a land size of 11,235 sqm (120,930 sq ft), the property’s addition will double the scale of the data center campus, totaling 22,200 sqm (238,960 sq ft). Subject to final design, the IT capacity of the three data centers is projected to increase from 40MW to 78MW (equivalent to 7,800 racks).

Gaw acquired the Fuchu Building in April 2022. At the time, the company said it planned to develop a 40MW, 4,000-rack data center campus. The company is partnering with GDS on the development of the first two phases, but it’s unclear if GDS is involved in this third phase.

Hong Kong-based Gaw has previously invested in data centers through a joint venture with Centrin in China, and recently broke ground on a data center joint venture with A3 Capital in Malaysia. The company is also building a facility in Batam, Indonesia.

Gaw has also announced investments and/or projects in South Korea, and Vietnam. The firm was reportedly interested in bidding for Global Switch, but didn’t make the final bidders' shortlist.