{"id":222926,"date":"2026-05-30T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/softbank-to-build-up-ai-data-centres-in-france-with-major-investment\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:20:14","slug":"softbank-to-build-up-ai-data-centres-in-france-with-major-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/softbank-to-build-up-ai-data-centres-in-france-with-major-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank to build up AI data centres in France with major investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/softbank-build-up-ai-data-centres-france-with-major-investment-2026-05-30\/\">SoftBank to build up AI data centres in France with major investment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/softbank-build-up-ai-data-centres-france-with-major-investment-2026-05-30\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/softbank-build-up-ai-data-centres-france-with-major-investment-2026-05-30\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 15:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.reuters.com\">www.reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SoftBank Group plans to invest \u20ac45 billion over five years in building artificial intelligence infrastructure in France&#8217;s Hauts-de-France region.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative, set to be formally announced at the Choose France business conference, aims to deliver 3.1 GW of capacity.<\/li>\n<li>French engineering company Schneider Electric will be a key partner, providing essential modules for the project.<\/li>\n<li>SoftBank&#8217;s overall planned investment in AI infrastructure in France is \u20ac75 billion with three operating sites anticipated by 2031 and more planned across the country.<\/li>\n<li>EDF, the state-owned nuclear energy giant, will lend one of its former power plants to SoftBank to convert it into a data center.<\/li>\n<li>This investment by SoftBank aligns with its broader global AI infrastructure spending, including a $30 billion investment in the AI company, OpenAI.<\/li>\n<li>France leverages the Choose France summit to attract foreign investments, instituted by President Emmanuel Macron in 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank to build up AI data centres in France with major investment https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/softbank-build-up-ai-data-centres-france-with-major-investment-2026-05-30\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/v2\/IAKMTHIIPZOBLKINXWZYVJHH7I.jpg?auth=b69c66a36463077b0117fb0b1748d4f76001a51d65d622c181307259a2362547&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-222926","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\/222926"}],"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=222926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222928,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222926\/revisions\/222928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}