Regarding "data centers" that are becoming more important for the realization of a digital society, the government will need to prepare for a large-scale disaster in the metropolitan area, and it will be dispersed to rural areas in the new economic measures decided on the 19th. It was decided to include the cost for maintenance.
Data centers that store and process data are concentrated in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and it has been pointed out that in the event of a large-scale disaster, there are risks such as the impact on daily life and the inability to continue corporate activities.
For this reason, in the new economic measures decided on the 19th, the government has decided to set up a fund of 50 billion yen to support the development by businesses in order to disperse the infrastructure of such a digital society to rural areas. rice field.
Specifically, we will subsidize up to half of the initial investment costs such as building a data center and installing servers.
As a growth strategy, the government has set up the "Digital Garden City National Concept" that connects the digitization of rural areas to regional revitalization, but it also has the advantage of improving the communication environment in rural areas by developing a data center.
In addition, although China is the largest concentration area in Asia for data centers, there are many calls from companies and others to manage data in Japan from the perspective of economic security, and the government has responded to these needs through this fund. I want to deal with it.