Japanese industrial giant Toshiba has created an internal organization to make itself more attractive to datacenter builders and operators.

The 95,000-employee company’s business units possess expertise in building power generation plants, providing lighting and cooling systems, and treating wastewater. Toshiba also makes hard disk drives, batteries, semiconductors, and industrial computers. The company also builds and installs elevators and lifts.

And it operates around the world.

The company knows datacenter operators need many of the things it does, but currently struggles to engage with datacenter builders and operators.

Execs want the new internal organization – named the Data Center Business Promotion Department – to change that by co-ordinating different business units. The comp

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