{"id":1011372,"date":"2026-06-01T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011372"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:46:26","slug":"after-openai-softbank-plans-investment-in-french-ai-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/01\/after-openai-softbank-plans-investment-in-french-ai-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"After OpenAI, SoftBank plans investment in French AI centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group has announced a massive plan to invest up to \u20ac75 billion (approx $87 billion) to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centres in France. The move highlights France&#8217;s growing reputation as Europe\u2019s top destination for next-generation tech infrastructure.. The announcement follows SoftBank\u2019s recent major financial commitments in the US, including a massive 13% stake in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>According to a company statement released Saturday, SoftBank\u2019s European project will roll out in phases to eventually deliver 5 gigawatts of computing power. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group has announced a massive plan to invest up to \u20ac75 billion (approx $87 billion) to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centres in France. The move highlights France&#8217;s growing reputation as Europe\u2019s top destination for next-generation tech infrastructure.. The announcement follows SoftBank\u2019s recent major financial commitments in the US, including a massive 13% stake in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. According to a company statement released Saturday, SoftBank\u2019s European project will roll out in phases to eventually deliver 5 gigawatts of computing power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011372","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011376,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011372\/revisions\/1011376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}