While the US is witnessing a historic scramble by tech companies to build out artificial intelligence computing, the project’s scale described by Son and Trump officials has little precedent. At 10 gigawatts, the centre would be among the largest — if not the largest — in the world. For context, a single gigawatt of capacity can power roughly 750,000 homes at any given moment.
(May 20): SoftBank Group Corp is developing a data centre-focused project in Ohio so massive that chief executive officer Masayoshi Son said it would channel US$500 billion ($641.15 billion) into a single campus.
“We are going to do the largest construction project in the country,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Friday alongside Son and Energy Secretary Chris Wright at the site.
