SoftBank puts oomph into AI mega-plan with DigitalBridge deal

Richard Agnew2025-12-30T09:11:00

Source: Joshua Sortino / Unsplash

Japanese investment giant agrees $4bn deal to buy DigitalBridge, and in doing so gains more control over hardware and plumbing for figurehead Masayoshi Son’s ‘Artificial Super Intelligence’ dream.

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Organisations — AIMS; Alibaba; Arm Holdings; AtlasEdge; Brookfield Asset Management; Colony Capital; Databank; Deutsche Telekom; DigitalBridge; Digita; Expedient; Freshwave; GD Towers; GI Partners; Liberty Global; MGX; Netomnia; nexfibre; OpenAI; Oracle; Scala; SoftBank; Switch; T-Mobile US; Takanock; Virgin Media O2; Vision Funds; Yondr; Zayo Group.
Geographic — Asia; EMEA; Europe; Germany; Japan; USA.
People — Marc Ganzi; Masayoshi Son.
Themes — Acquisition; AI Factory; AI infrastructure; Artificial Super Intelligence; Compute; Connectivity; Data centres; Digital infrastructure; Fibre; Hyperscale leasing; Investment; Power infrastructure; Towerco; Wireless infrastructure.

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