The founder of Masayoshi SoftBank Group tries to connect with the Taiwanese semiconductor production CO to build an industrial trillion complex for the production of robots and artificial intelligence.
The aim of a billionaire is to build a version of the extensive production center in Shenzhen, China, which, according to sources Bloomberg would bring to the US, would bring the US back to the US.
The park may include production lines for industrial robots driven by AI.
The biggest bet of a son to this day, TSMC is still responding
Codename “Project Crystal Land”, the Arizona complex presents the 67-year-old most ambitious attempt by the chief of SoftBank in his career, which included numerous betting offers, thousands of yields and billions of dollars in losses, Bloomberg said.
SoftBank officials expect the Taiwanese manufacturer of advanced AI chips of NVIDIA CORP to play an important role in the project, although the exact plan is not clear.
TSMC is already planning to invest $ 165 billion in the US and launched mass production in its first Arizona factory. It is also not clear whether the TSMC is interested, the news report suggests.
SoftBank is looking for tax relief or funds from US government
Softbank officials were in contact with federal and state government officials to discuss possible tax reliefs for companies that build factories on companies or otherwise invest in an industrial park.
Son has compiled a list of portfolio companies SoftBank Vision Fund, which could participate in the Arizona production center. Startups supported by SoftBank working on robotics and automation technologies, such as agile robots, can set up production equipment in the industrial complex, the press agency said.
The progress of plans highly depends on the support of Trump’s administration and civil servants. Although the project may require $ 1 trillion, the actual scale depends on the interest of large technology companies, the report says.
SoftBank’s Bull’s attitude to AI
When exploring the Arizona SoftBank project, it also plans to invest up to $ 30 billion in Openai. It is also putting money on Stargate with Openi, Oracle and Abu Dhabi’s MGX and is trying to put hundreds of billions of dollars in data centers and related infrastructure around the world.
These expenditures come when the cash SoftBank at the end of March was $ 23 billion. This month, the company based in Tokyo has also received around $ 4.8 billion by selling its share in T-Mobile USA.
Son is a restless search for growth
More investments to the founder of SoftBank in projects that take place in seizures and begin to determine how engaged it is for any business, the news agency said
The billionaire is often kept by the desire to strengthen the price of SoftBank shares and repay retail investors who held the company’s shares in front of the boom and bust Dot-Com. Many investors have been waiting for decades for the stock to recover, and the sources known to Bloomberg said.
If Son’s primary motivation is to clear the path for AI, it may be more cost -effective to stimulate partnerships that combine the expertise of production with engineers AI and specialists in the fields from medicine to robotics and incubation of smaller companies, Melissa Otto, the head of research in the visible Alfa told Bloomberg, told Bloomberg.
However, pouring cash to data centers can help reduce the cost of developing AI applications and stimulate wider acceptance, she said. “He’s a long -term thinker and risks,” Otto said. “It’s too early to say that.”
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