Infrawatch

SoftBank picks France for €75bn mega-bet on European data centres

2026-06-01T16:26:00

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Source: Magnific / freepik

Japanese investment group unveils multi-billion euro programme to build out French data centre portfolio, amidst aggressive AI infra expansion in Europe and beyond. Investment among wave of digital infra projects that have emerged in and around recent Choose France Summit…

This article includes:

  • Organisations: AIMS; AION consortium; Ardian; AtlasEdge; Brookfield Asset Management; Databank; DigitalBridge; EDF; European Union; Expedient; Les Echos; Liberty Global; MGX; OpenAI; Oracle; SB Energy; Scala Data Centers; Schneider Electric; Sesterce; SoftBank; Switch; TDF; Vantage Data Centers; Verne Global; Yondr.
  • Geographies: Asia; Europe; France; Japan; Latin America; United Arab Emirates (UAE); United States of America (USA).
  • People: Emmanuel Macron.
  • Themes: AI Gigafactory; AI infrastructure; Artificial intelligence (AI); Data centres; Edge computing; Fibre (FTTP); Fibre infrastructure; Industrial production clusters; Infrastructure; Infrastructure investment; Investment; Joint ventures; Nuclear energy; Private mobile networks; Subsea cables; Wireless infra.

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