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Masayoshi Son: AI is Just Beginning, Future Could Be '50 Times' Bigger than Internet Boom

On June 1, as he topped the list of Asia's richest, Masayoshi Son, the head of SoftBank Group, publicly stated that the wave of artificial intelligence is just beginning, and its scale could be '50 times' that of the internet boom over 20 years ago. Son remarked, 'I believe the scale of this AI wave is at least 10 times that of the internet era, and it could even reach 50 times.' At the time of these remarks, Son was in Paris, France. As a guest of French President Macron, SoftBank announced last weekend that it would invest in building data centers and other AI infrastructure in France. During a press conference at the French presidential palace on Monday, Macron announced that at the upcoming 'Choose France' investment summit, companies from various countries would commit to investing 93 billion euros in France. Macron added that more than half of this amount (45 billion euros) comes from SoftBank, aimed at constructing three data centers in the Hauts-de-France region with a total capacity of 3.1 gigawatts by 2031, with the potential for this investment to expand to 75 billion euros.

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