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Market Monday, June 29, 2026 at 06:32 AM

SoftBank commits €75 billion to build 5 GW of AI data center capacity across France through 2031

SoftBank has announced plans to invest up to €75 billion ($85 billion) to develop 5 gigawatts of data center capacity across France, starting with three initial sites in Dunkirk, Bosquel, and Bouchain. The company is targeting a build-out of 3.1 GW by 2031. This commitment represents one of the largest single-country AI infrastructure investments announced to date and underscores the intensifying race among hyperscalers and tech infrastructure investors to secure European compute capacity.

The project addresses critical infrastructure gaps as European data center demand surges amid AI adoption and strict sovereignty requirements favoring locally-hosted infrastructure. France has positioned itself as a strategic hub for EU AI and cloud computing through incentives and regulatory support. The €75 billion deployment also signals investor confidence in France's power grid stability and energy availability compared to other European markets facing grid constraints.

SoftBank's commitment parallels similar mega-scale investments across Europe: Ardian and Verne are planning a €5 billion, 500 MW campus in Île-de-France for European AI sovereignty, while TotalEnergies is partnering with Dell and NVIDIA to deploy Pangea 5, a €100 million supercomputer for seismic imaging and AI-driven R&D. These projects collectively represent billions in capital reallocation toward European infrastructure.

For infrastructure architects and operators, the SoftBank France build-out signals sustained multi-year capex in European markets and tightening capacity competition. Early deployment timelines (3.1 GW by 2031) create near-term urgency for workload commitments. The geographic shift toward Europe, driven by sovereignty mandates and power availability, reshapes deployment economics and latency planning for transatlantic AI operations.

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datacenterknowledge.com
“SoftBank has announced plans to invest up to €75 billion ($85 billion) to develop 5 GW of data center capacity across the country, starting with three sites in Dunkirk, Bosquel, and Bouchain, targeting 3.1 GW by 2031”