{"id":228853,"date":"2025-12-12T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228853\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:52:11","slug":"softbank-eyes-data-center-group-switch-as-son-hunts-for-ai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228853\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Eyes Data Center Group Switch as Son Hunts for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/9984:JT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SoftBank Group Corp.<\/a> is studying potential acquisitions including data center operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/SWCH:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Switch Inc.<\/a>, people with knowledge of the matter said, underscoring billionaire founder Masayoshi Son\u2019s growing ambitions to ride an AI-fueled boom in digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Japanese company has held discussions with Switch leadership about a possible deal, the people said. Its owners have sought a valuation of around $50 billion including debt for the data center operator, said some of the people. Switch is simultaneously preparing for an initial public offering as soon as early next year, and the company\u2019s backers have considered a valuation of about $60 billion including debt via a stock-market listing, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SoftBank Group Corp. is studying potential acquisitions including data center operator Switch Inc., people with knowledge of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[7823,291,289,290,79,3425,6046,122579,18,19,6394,17,188,115671,778,254,5442,82,9495],"class_list":{"0":"post-228853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-acquisitions","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-deals","14":"tag-debt","15":"tag-digitalbridge-group-inc","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-infrastructure","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-masayoshi-son","22":"tag-nvidia-corp","23":"tag-private-equity","24":"tag-softbank-group-corp","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-valuation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115705515228748525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}