Fifty-two-metre datacenter towers rise in Tokyo car parks

Claim

Japan's $23 billion data center market is set to grow 50% by 2030 with fifty-two-metre towers rising in urban Tokyo parking lots, while Starcloud entered talks at a $2.2 billion valuation one month after closing at $1.1 billion.

Reported metric: $2.2B in a month

Reporting date: 2026-05-04 (not necessarily the event date)

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