{"id":198273,"date":"2026-03-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/softbank-announces-us-plant-for-ai-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:25:18","slug":"softbank-announces-us-plant-for-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/softbank-announces-us-plant-for-ai-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Softbank announces US plant for AI data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/03\/23\/2003854281\">Softbank announces US plant for AI data centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/03\/23\/2003854281\">https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/03\/23\/2003854281<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-22 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.taipeitimes.com\">www.taipeitimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the key points based on the provided article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Power Plant Announcement:<\/strong> Softbank Group Corp announced plans to build a colossal gas-fired power plant in Ohio to supply energy to artificial intelligence data centers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Investment Context:<\/strong> This initiative is part of a broader $550 billion Japanese investment in the US, which was agreed upon in return for reduced trade tariffs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Size and Capacity:<\/strong> The power plant, estimated to cost $33.3 billion, will have a generation capacity of 9.2 gigawatts (GW), making it amongst the biggest power plants globally.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Location and Transformation:<\/strong> The power plant will be constructed at the US Department of Energy\u2019s Portsmouth site which has historical significance due to its past role in enriching uranium for national defense but is now set to help the U.S. lead in the AI race.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>International Collaboration:<\/strong> Softbank announced a consortium with American and Japanese firms to build the plant and develop AI infrastructure in Ohio.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Infrastructure:<\/strong> The infrastructure is designed to support data centers capable of training AI models including chatbots and image generators.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Market Demand:<\/strong> The construction reflects a global investment boom emphasizing AI and data centers, driven by a significant surge in industrial investment last year due to such technologies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softbank announces US plant for AI data centers https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/03\/23\/2003854281 Publish Date: 2026-03-22 12:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.taipeitimes.com\/images\/2026\/03\/23\/P09-260323-306.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-198273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198275,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198273\/revisions\/198275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}