SoftBank × Schneider Electric — €75B AI Data Centre Infrastructure Hub in France

SoftBank Group committed €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity across France, naming Schneider Electric as a primary strategic infrastructure partner. The partnership focuses on the physical AI supply chain: Schneider Electric will provide power management systems, thermal cooling, and robotics manufacturing for the first-phase site in Dunkirk — creating a centralised hardware hub to support Northern European AI scaling. This marks a shift from software to physical infrastructure partnerships in the AI race.