€75 billion. That number makes every prior European AI announcement look like a pilot program. SoftBank's June 2026 commitment to build AI infrastructure in France — announced during President Macron's third annual AI summit in Paris — is larger than the entire EU AI Act compliance budget, larger than Microsoft's €4B French investment from February 2025, and represents roughly 15% of SoftBank's total assets being directed at a single geography.
The headline number covers a 4-year deployment through 2030. The French government is providing subsidized land, accelerated permitting, and what officials described as "sovereign data partnership" terms that give France priority access to compute capacity hosted on its own soil. In exchange, SoftBank gets favorable tax treatment and a fast track through France's historically slow infrastructure approval process.
What Is Actually Being Built
The €75B breaks down into three components per the joint press release:
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