Broadband Tower, Hokkaiden Information Technology Launch Ishikari Data Center Resale Alliance
DataNews Editorial Team
Broadband Tower and Hokkaiden Information Technology have launched a business alliance to resell Broadband Tower data-center services at the Ishikari Shinko Site within Ishikari Renewable Energy Data Center No. 1. The arrangement targets enterprise and institutional customers in Hokkaido and across Japan.
- Hokkaiden Information Technology will resell Broadband Tower services from the Ishikari Shinko Site to customers across Hokkaido and Japan.
- The partner will manage customer engagement from requirements and quotations through service activation, while Broadband Tower provides the facility services and technical support.
- Target workloads include AI/HPC, disaster recovery and backup; these are intended use cases rather than confirmed deployments.
- The facility is described by the source as using 100% renewable electricity.
- No new data-center capacity, investment, pricing or customer commitments were announced.
Broadband Tower and Hokkaiden Information Technology announced on October 15 that they had begun a business alliance for the resale of Broadband Tower’s data-center services at the Ishikari Shinko Site, a Broadband Tower data hall within Ishikari Renewable Energy Data Center No. 1.
Under the arrangement, Hokkaiden Information Technology will act as the customer-facing sales and implementation channel for enterprise and institutional users in Hokkaido and elsewhere in Japan. Its role covers requirements definition, quotations, applications and the start of service. Broadband Tower will provide the underlying data-center services, alongside technical support for equipment and operations.
The partners are positioning the site for AI/HPC, disaster recovery and backup workloads. The source describes Ishikari Renewable Energy Data Center No. 1 as using 100% renewable electricity, though it does not specify the methodology, applicable period or verification mechanism behind that claim.
Commercially, the partnership combines local operational support around Ishikari with Broadband Tower’s expertise in connectivity-oriented data-center design and operations, including connections to megaclouds and data centers in central Tokyo. This could broaden the site’s accessibility for high-density or availability-sensitive deployments outside Japan’s largest urban markets.
The announcement concerns a resale and support alliance rather than a construction project, capacity expansion or commissioning event. Neither partner disclosed facility capacity, available capacity, pricing, investment, customer numbers or a timeline for commercial impact.
The alliance adds a commercial route to market and local customer support for a renewable-energy data-center site serving AI/HPC, disaster-recovery and backup use cases. It could improve access to the facility for power-intensive and availability-sensitive workloads, although no new capacity, investment or customer deployment has been disclosed.
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This article was prepared by the DataNews editorial team based on the sources listed above.