{"id":1011176,"date":"2026-06-01T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011176"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:45:06","slug":"softbank-to-invest-e75-billion-in-5-gw-french-ai-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/01\/softbank-to-invest-e75-billion-in-5-gw-french-ai-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank to invest \u20ac75 billion in 5 GW French AI centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group plans to invest as much as \u20ac75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in France, saying the country is poised to become a top European hub for AI infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The first phase comprises an initial \u20ac45 billion investment to deliver 3.1 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in the Hauts-de-France region by 2031, SoftBank said Saturday in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group plans to invest as much as \u20ac75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in France, saying the country is poised to become a top European hub for AI infrastructure. The first phase comprises an initial \u20ac45 billion investment to deliver 3.1 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in the Hauts-de-France region by 2031, SoftBank said Saturday in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011192,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011176\/revisions\/1011192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}