{"id":223144,"date":"2026-05-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/softbank-to-invest-in-ai-data-centers-in-france\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T19:05:11","slug":"softbank-to-invest-in-ai-data-centers-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/softbank-to-invest-in-ai-data-centers-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Softbank to invest in AI data centers in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/01\/2003858302\">Softbank to invest in AI data centers in France<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/01\/2003858302\">https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/01\/2003858302<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-31 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.taipeitimes.com\">www.taipeitimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Softbank Group Corp plans to invest up to 75 billion euros (US$87.44 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France, making it a key European hub for AI infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>The first phase involves an initial 45 billion euro investment to create 3.1GW of AI data center capacity in the Hauts-de-France region by 2031.<\/li>\n<li>This major investment initiative is influenced by diplomatic discussions between French President Emmanuel Macron and Softbank founder Masayoshi Son.<\/li>\n<li>Alongside Softbank, Schneider Electric SE is partnering to develop a hub for AI infrastructure and robotics manufacturing in Dunkirk.<\/li>\n<li>The investment plans align with a broader strategy by Softbank, which includes a large-scale data center project in Ohio and participation in a US$500 billion initiative named Stargate in partnership with several major global corporations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softbank to invest in AI data centers in France https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2026\/06\/01\/2003858302 Publish Date: 2026-05-31 12:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.taipeitimes.com\/images\/2026\/06\/01\/P09-260601-323.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223144"}],"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=223144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223146,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223144\/revisions\/223146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}