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KDDI and HPE Join Forces to Launch AI Data Center Operations by Early 2026
LAS VEGAS, June 25, 2025--HPE Discover 2025 – HPE (NYSE: HPE) and KDDI Corporation today announced they are collaborating to open the Osaka Sakai Data Center by early 2026 to support startups and enterprises with NVIDIA AI infrastructure for developing AI applications and training large language models (LLMs).
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