{"id":1011197,"date":"2026-06-01T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011197"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:58:21","slug":"softbank-to-spend-87-5-billion-on-ai-centres-in-france-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/01\/softbank-to-spend-87-5-billion-on-ai-centres-in-france-son\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank to spend $87.5 billion on AI centres in France: Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese tech investor SoftBank will spend 75 billion euros ($87.5 billion) on artificial intelligence infrastructure in France, its founder Masayoshi Son told a French newspaper in an interview released Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be the largest investment in Europe in infrastructure related to artificial intelligence: 75 billion euros in total,&#8221; Son told La Tribune Dimanche weekly ahead of a French investment conference hosted by President Emmanuel Macron. <\/p>\n<p>He said it included 45 billion euros to be spent by 2031 on data centres in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese tech investor SoftBank will spend 75 billion euros ($87.5 billion) on artificial intelligence infrastructure in France, its founder Masayoshi Son told a French newspaper in an interview released Saturday. &#8220;This will be the largest investment in Europe in infrastructure related to artificial intelligence: 75 billion euros in total,&#8221; Son told La Tribune Dimanche weekly ahead of a French investment conference hosted by President Emmanuel Macron. He said it included 45 billion euros to be spent by 2031 on data centres in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.<\/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-1011197","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\/1011197","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=1011197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011225,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011197\/revisions\/1011225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}