SoftBank group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son and France's President Emmanuel Macron make a joint statement as part of a signing ceremony and a meeting at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, on June 1. [Photo/Agencies]

SoftBank is in talks with French President Macron over a potential $100B AI data center in France, which would be Europe's largest AI facility.

Total capacity for data centers expected to reach 5 gigawatts, among largest in Europe