U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright (left), SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (center), and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, following a groundbreaking ceremony at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, on Friday. | BLOOMBERG
SoftBank Group is working to deliver a data center-focused infrastructure project in Ohio so massive that CEO Masayoshi Son said it would channel $500 billion into a single campus.
"We are going to do the largest construction project in the country,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Friday, unveiling the project alongside Son and U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
SoftBank is seeking to build the AI computing complex, capable of drawing 10 gigawatts of power, at a former uranium enrichment complex owned by the U.S. Energy Department. For context, a single gigawatt of capacity can power roughly 750,000 homes at any given moment. The company expects the first phase of the data center project to include about 800 megawatts of power, cost $30 billion to $40 billion and be completed in early 2028.
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