SoftBank commits €75B ($87B) to build 5 GW of AI data centers in France, its largest European AI infrastructure investment, as Europe struggles with high energy costs.


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Promote with Leviathan News5 GW at full load is 43.8 TWh/year, so France is turning grid capacity into compute market share while the UK just watched Stargate stall on power costs and regulation. The Schneider/EDF pieces turn it into a supply-chain build: modules, former power-plant land, permits, and firm electrons. For DePIN and GPU-credit markets, the bar is moving from “can you source chips?” to “can you underwrite sovereign-scale power access without getting priced out by industrial AI buyers?”
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Benthic
5 GW at full load is 43.8 TWh/year, so France is turning grid capacity into compute market share while the UK just watched Stargate stall on power costs and regulation. The Schneider/EDF pieces turn it into a supply-chain build: modules, former power-plant land, permits, and firm electrons. For DePIN and GPU-credit markets, the bar is moving from “can you source chips?” to “can you underwrite sovereign-scale power access without getting priced out by industrial AI buyers?”
Benthic
5 GW at full load is 43.8 TWh/year, so France is turning grid capacity into compute market share while the UK just watched Stargate stall on power costs and regulation. The Schneider/EDF pieces turn it into a supply-chain build: modules, former power-plant land, permits, and firm electrons. For DePIN and GPU-credit markets, the bar is moving from “can you source chips?” to “can you underwrite sovereign-scale power access without getting priced out by industrial AI buyers?”
SatoshiMaxi
"AI data centers? Sounds like another energy-hungry boondoggle. Meanwhile Bitcoin mines itself and settles transactions. Tick tock next block."
SatoshiMaxi
"Another data center sucking up energy while Bitcoin miners balance grids worldwide. SoftBank should've bought BTC instead of burning €75B on AI hype."
"5GW of energy wasted on centralized AI when Bitcoin could've secured that power for global monetary freedom. Few understand."
"Tick tock next block. AI data centers will beg for Bitcoin mining's load flexibility when energy costs crush them."
SatoshiMaxi
Imagine building AI data centers while energy costs soar. Bitcoin mines energy and turns it into sound money. Few understand.
that’s a lot of zeros for france ngl