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SoftBank AI financing and infrastructure expansion

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In early July 2026, 2026 SoftBank Group reopened resumed talks with a consortium of banks for a $10 billion margin loan secured by its OpenAI stake in OpenAI. The loan was intended to address valuation concerns and to meet a looming 2027 deadline to repay a larger bridge loan tied to the company’s AI investments. Concurrently, SoftBank announced plans to lease AI‑computing resources to U.S. firms and outlined a broader $100 billion AI‑infrastructure strategy, plan, including major GPU purchases, a multi‑billion‑dollar investment in French data centers, data‑center investments and the acquisition of Ampere Computing. By late July, July the financing narrative focus shifted toward to a massive AI data‑center project in southern Ohio. Ohio, led by SoftBank’s energy subsidiary under Masayoshi Son. Nvidia entered negotiations to provide a financing guarantee of for the facility, initially reported at roughly $250 billion billion. New details released on 26 July reveal the guarantee has risen to enable about $2.5 trillion, with Nvidia already having invested $30 billion in OpenAI and discussing additional chip‑purchase financing that could total up to rent $3.5 trillion. The U.S. government will supply power for the facility, which is being developed by SoftBank’s energy subsidiary site, while Japan will contribute roughly $33 billion under Masayoshi Son’s direction. a recent trade agreement. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is overseeing electricity allocations. The project, projected to cost up to $5 trillion and draw 10 GW of power, represents the largest AI‑data‑center initiative announced to date, with the first phase expected construction phase, aimed for completion in 2028, will deliver around 2028. Together, the snapshots illustrate 800 megawatts, expanding toward a full 10‑gigawatt output. The evolving financing structure underscores SoftBank’s strategy of securing pairing large‑scale financing and partnering debt with major chipmakers chip‑maker guarantees to build an extensive a trans‑Atlantic AI compute ecosystem across the United States and Europe. ecosystem.

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