SoftBank to spend $87.5 bln on AI centers in France: Son
Japanese tech investor SoftBank will spend 75 billion euros ($87.5 billion) on artificial intelligence infrastructure in France, its founder Masayoshi Son told a French newspaper in an interview released Saturday.
"This will be the largest investment in Europe in infrastructure related to artificial intelligence: 75 billion euros in total," Son told La Tribune Dimanche weekly ahead of a French investment conference hosted by President Emmanuel Macron.
He said it included 45 billion euros to be spent by 2031 on data centres in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.
French electrics giant Schneider will be a partner in the huge project, its chief executive Olivier Blum told AFP.
