SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about unveiling a multibillion-dollar AI data center project in the coming weeks, Bloomberg’s Min-Jeong Lee, Anto Antony, and Benoit Berthelot report. Son is considering an investment in the country as part of SoftBank’s broader buildout of AI infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter, who add that Son has floated the idea of putting as much as $100B into the country.
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