SoftBank plans massive U.S. power plant for AI data centres
The Hindu
Japan's SoftBank Group said Saturday it plans to build a huge new gas-fired power plant in the US state of Ohio
Japan's SoftBank Group said Saturday it plans to build a huge new gas-fired power plant in the US state of Ohio to provide energy for artificial intelligence data centres.
Tech investor SoftBank is a major backer of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and its flamboyant CEO Masayoshi Son is a long-time ally of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The natural-gas plant is part of a broader $550 billion Japanese investment in the United States that Tokyo agreed to in exchange for reduced trade tariffs.
Construction of the $33.3 billion power plant with a "large-scale" power generation capacity of 9.2 gigawatts (GW) will take place at the US Department of Energy's Portsmouth site, SoftBank said.
"This is a size bigger than any power plant, I think, in the world," Son said at a ceremony in Ohio to announce the project, on Friday local time.
"At least in the United States, for sure, this is the biggest power generation in one location," he added.
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