SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.
THE SO WHAT
€75B for 5 GW of AI data centers in France is industrial policy by other means — compute is becoming a national asset class. If you’re planning serious AI workloads in Europe, your location and vendor choices just turned into a geopolitical decision, not a pure cost one.
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