{"id":953989,"date":"2026-05-12T03:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953989\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:40:24","slug":"softbank-weighs-major-ai-data-center-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/953989\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Weighs Major AI Data Center in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-[21px] text-stone-700 leading-[1.45] font-serif font-light pb-7 pr-4 max-w-[68ch]\">Bloomberg reported that SoftBank founder <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">Masayoshi Son<\/strong> has held talks with French President <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">Emmanuel Macron<\/strong> about an ambitious <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">AI data center<\/strong> project in <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">France<\/strong>, and that Son has floated the possibility of investing as much as <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">$100 billion<\/strong>, according to people familiar with the matter. Reuters corroborated the Bloomberg reporting, saying the potential investment could include a multibillion-dollar data center project and noting the plan could be announced during the <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">Choose France Summit<\/strong>. Reuters also reported that it could not immediately verify the Bloomberg report and that details remain in flux. Reuters additionally noted SoftBank has invested more than <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">$30 billion<\/strong> in <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">OpenAI<\/strong> to date, a high-stakes figure relevant to SoftBank&#8217;s broader AI infrastructure activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bloomberg reported that SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about an ambitious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[9105,32054,2000,299,36,88491],"class_list":{"0":"post-953989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-ai-infrastructure","9":"tag-data-centers","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-softbank"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116559533010204311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}