APL Hibikino Data Center Campus, Kitakyushu

Name: APL Hibikino Data Center Campus, Kitakyushu
Address: JP

Site preparation

Japan · 1 project · Last reported 2026-10-15

Summary

Kitakyushu's mayor stated on October 15, 2026 that the land for the Hibikino data-centre project has been sold and handed over, and that land-development and power service-connection works have started. The city reports that the preparatory land works began in February 2026 and the power works in April 2026. The developer, APL Group, has deferred main-building construction from the planned November start to within the fiscal year ending March 2027. The city describes the first building, provisionally the Hibikino-kita Building, as a planned four-storey steel structure of about 31,700 m² on a 37,392 m² plot. A second building is being planned. evidence

Kitakyushu City · published 2026-10-16

Location

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Campus reference; individual project footprints are not mapped.

Projects (1)

APL Hibikino Data Center — Hibikino-kita first building development

Site preparation last observed as of 2026-10-15 · Authoritative status update

The city's information site describes the first building, provisionally the Hibikino-kita Building new construction, at land lot Hibikino-kita 1-101, Wakamatsu-ku. Building client: Hibikino DC Kaihatsu 1 TMK; project cooperation: USI Engineering; designer: Nikken Sekkei; land-development contractor: Wakachiku Construction (Kyushu branch). The planned four-storey steel building has 31,741.59 m² gross floor area on a 37,392.30 m² plot, about 42.2 m above grade; figures may change. A second building is being planned, details undecided. The history records the October 2023 municipal land sale, February 2026 start of preparatory land-development works and April 2026 start of power service-connection works. evidence

Kitakyushu City · publication date not stated

The city's FAQ states that it already applies route and time restrictions and traffic guards for construction vehicles during school commuting hours, that the developer selected the site in 2021 from city-proposed candidates, and that the planned building is about 42.2 m high. evidence

Kitakyushu City · publication date not stated

City-made land-use plan of the Kitakyushu Science and Research Park marking the data-centre plan site (計画地) in the phase-2 university and related-facilities area east of the elementary school. Used for visual identity consistency only; it has no coordinate control. evidence

Kitakyushu City · publication date not stated

The catalog lists the 2026 Wakamatsu-ku GeoJSON, states conversion of public-coordinate MOJ map XML with JGD2011 using MIERUNE mojxml-py and GDAL, and labels the dataset Creative Commons Attribution, with attribution required. evidence

Association for Promotion of Infrastructure Geospatial Information Distribution (AIGID) · publication date not stated

APL describes a 19,000-tsubo (15.5-acre) Kitakyushu site purchased from Kitakyushu City in November 2023, with a first project able to accommodate 120 MW of total power load, committed power then targeted for September 2027 and a first 60 MW phase planned. Construction was then expected to begin as early as 2026. evidence

Asia Pacific Land (APL) Group · published 2025-01-20

Companies

Owner: Hibikino DC Kaihatsu 1 TMK (ひびきのＤＣ開発１特定目的会社) (current) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Kitakyushu mayor's October 15, 2026 regular press conference: Hibikino data centre evidence row
Kitakyushu City · published 2026-10-16 · Government record

Locator

Campus locator · Compiled location reference · exact_city_published_lot_number_cadastral_parent_parcel evidence

Source checks

Not reviewed against imagery not_reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 12 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 33.89370, 130.71315
Geometry licence: CC-BY
Use scope: Campus locator
Scope class: exact_city_published_lot_number_cadastral_parent_parcel
Authority: Compiled location reference
Source entity: Campus
Method: moj_aigid_exact_lot_two_piece_parcel_dissolved_planar_centroid_epsg6670_to_crs84
Derivation: coordinate_transform
Precision scope: Centroid of cadastral lot Hibikino-kita 1-101, the roughly 6.3 ha developer property. It does not locate the 37,392 m² first-building plot, a building footprint, the construction extent or a surveyed boundary.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
Registry map accuracy class 甲二 without a parcel-specific numeric horizontal accuracy; one piece comes from a datum-converted map. Six decimals describe calculation, not survey accuracy.
Geometry evidence: a1c4d862

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.

Evidence for APL Hibikino Data Center Campus, Kitakyushu
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
AIGID catalog: MOJ registry map data, Fukuoka Prefecture Kitakyushu Wakamatsu-ku Archived copy	Association for Promotion of Infrastructure Geospatial Information Distribution (AIGID) Third-party dataset	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-16	CC-BY	AIGID catalog of Japan Ministry of Justice registry map data	`ee9fb411e30dd384e146e1624a9e66e175b8b4ead8bd8e51a974dd2d4385c70f` Retained source material; see source provenance
APL Group and Global Compute Infrastructure announce Kyushu data-centre joint venture Archived copy	Asia Pacific Land (APL) Group Company disclosure	Site and project identity	2025-01-20	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	Asia Pacific Land (APL) Group	`d39a529ae81a934864361d9e7d4e37a5762db6c712bbe4347a414a22dc3fcb20` Retained source material; see source provenance
Kitakyushu City Hibikino Data Center Information Station: plan overview and project history Archived copy	Kitakyushu City Government record	Site and project identity, Owner claim	not stated	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	Kitakyushu City	`dce2d33857c9fce8517b50632b5f30920d41c60348f4350911d1f0b73a57b4dd` Retained source material; see source provenance
Kitakyushu City Hibikino data centre FAQ data file Archived copy	Kitakyushu City Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	Kitakyushu City	`7893ad1e9b1a743f79f8c8ffa84c78fc06786551539e44f4e4dd46658201ec8c` Retained source material; see source provenance
Kitakyushu mayor's October 15, 2026 regular press conference: Hibikino data centre Archived copy	Kitakyushu City Government record	Physical status	2026-10-16	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	Kitakyushu City	`0f8bdd54f61d561ca7cce566eb198f782c4e93193946a04c4789d7b552344b8b` Retained source material; see source provenance
Kitakyushu Science and Research Park land-use plan marking the data-centre plan site Archived copy	Kitakyushu City Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	Kitakyushu City	`fd37d44cde0e41e69d128e4ef69c267f9d0acd83e851c8a57de69a741f5bb900` Retained source material; see source provenance
MOJ / AIGID 2026 Wakamatsu-ku cadastral geometry: Hibikino-kita 1-101 Archived copy	AIGID; source registry map data by Japan Ministry of Justice Map feature	Geometry	not stated	2026-10-16	CC-BY	Japan Ministry of Justice registry map data; AIGID GeoJSON conversion. Catalog license: Creative Commons Attribution.	`56bbfed7ba76e954774a2a8d0535df692718b37b399b2bb4c3a544da3285aab4` Retained source material; see source provenance

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). APL Hibikino Data Center Campus, Kitakyushu [site vcc-site-c81c0194b0e64300e188]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-c81c0194b0e64300e188/

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