SoftBank Group eyes $1tn U.S. plan for AI robot industrial parks

Tech investor expects automation to help understaffed American manufacturers

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SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son makes a presentation at a meeting with Japanese companies in Tokyo on Feb. 3. (Photo by Yutaka Miyaguchi)

MASAYUKI SHIKATA and AKIRA YAMASHITA

TOKYO/LONDON -- SoftBank Group is looking to create industrial parks across the U.S. featuring artificial intelligence-equipped factories, Nikkei has learned.

The Japanese tech investor could commit to about $1 trillion in such investments, significantly more than the $500 billion AI infrastructure investment that billionaire CEO Masayoshi Son announced at the White House in January with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle's Larry Ellison.

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