RunPod Launches AP-JP-1 Data Center in Fukushima

RunPod has launched its first data center in Japan, AP-JP-1, located in Fukushima, marking a significant advancement in its global infrastructure strategy by improving performance for users across the Asia-Pacific region. This new data center addresses previous latency issues faced by developers and organizations in Asia, reducing latency from 150–200ms to as low as 8–50ms for users in Japan, South Korea, and nearby countries, thus enabling more efficient workflows and lower-latency inference. AP-JP-1 is equipped with NVIDIA H200 GPUs, making it suitable for high-performance workloads such as large model training and fine-tuning. Additionally, it ensures compliance with national data sovereignty mandates, meeting the needs of Japanese institutions in sectors like finance, healthcare, and government that manage sensitive information. This expansion supports developers, ML engineers, and enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region by providing domestic data residency and reduced latency, aligning with RunPod's mission to democratize access to high-performance AI infrastructure globally.