Masayoshi Son

Orbital data centres cut electricity costs, but power is a tiny fraction of total operating expense

Founder Masayoshi Son pursued a deal of around US$50 billion for Switch

The investment firm funds digital infrastructure sectors such as data centres, cell towers, fibre networks and others

[NEW YORK/TOKYO/SAN FRANCISCO] SoftBank Group is racing to close a US$22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end through an array of cash-raising schemes, including a sale of some investmen...

Acquiring Switch would allow SoftBank to own a large portfolio of data centres outright

The company needs to raise capital to fund projects including data centre construction

Uniqlo billionaire Tadashi Yanai has been at the top of the country’s ranking for most of the past decade, and continuously since April 2022

SoftBank says it will invest as much as US$30 billion in the US company, a plan that’s contingent on OpenAI’s restructuring of its complex operational structure

The candidates work alongside the billionaire every day, although he has not disclosed who they are to anyone