Kyushu Electric Power Company, Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ), QTnet, Inc., 1Finity Inc., and Nautilus Technologies recently announced that a “demonstration project for decentralized digital infrastructure construction” in the Kyushu area of Japan will be launched from October 2025. Small-scale data centers will be deployed across the Kyushu area and interconnected via APN (All-Photonics Network), acting as one large data center. 1Finity, a Fujitsu company, is a global provider of communications networks and will be providing its photonics NIC, which it says enables direct optical signal connections between servers located in different data centers.