SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son announced at shareholder meeting a major data center development in Ohio, claiming it will become the 'world's largest data center.' SB Energy will provide power equivalent to 10 nuclear plants to a single facility, with MOU negotiations underway for a major customer.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son announced plans for a massive data center development in Ohio that the company claims will become the world's largest. The disclosure came at SoftBank's shareholder meeting on June 24, where Son revealed the company is in memorandum of understanding negotiations with a major customer to build the facility. Son indicated that if finalized, this single business would generate substantial profits for the group.

The scale of power infrastructure underpinning the project underscores the facility's ambition. SB Energy, SoftBank's energy subsidiary, is planning to supply power equivalent to 10 nuclear plants to the single Ohio data center—a remarkable figure that reflects the computational density required for modern AI workloads. The project addresses one of the critical constraints in the AI buildout: securing sufficient baseload power capacity in the United States.

The move signals SoftBank's aggressive pivot toward AI infrastructure ownership. Rather than remaining a pure capital investor, the company is positioning itself as a vertically integrated operator controlling both power generation and data center capacity, a strategy that could secure it preferential terms with major AI customers while locking in long-term revenue streams.