CoinWorld News reports that on June 23rd, during the annual shareholders' meeting, Masayoshi Son stated that building space data centers has little practical value, and the outcome of AI competition will be determined by computing power on land. He explicitly denied SoftBank's plans to emulate Elon Musk's space data center project, pointing out that electricity costs only account for a small part of data center operating expenses, and relocating to space would incur high rocket transportation costs and maintenance difficulties. Masayoshi Son emphasized that the AI showdown in the coming years is more critical, and SoftBank will focus on building powerful data centers on land, with plans to enter the U.S. new cloud computing market for AI.

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LiquidityBarista
· 3h ago
Electricity accounts for only a small part; this point is very important. Many people mistakenly believe that the majority of data center costs come from power, but in fact, infrastructure and operations are more expensive.
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WatchingWhalesUnderTheNeon
· 3h ago
Masayoshi Son is being quite pragmatic this time; space data centers sound like science fiction, but rocket shipping costs and maintenance expenses are indeed discouraging.
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PositionLikeACat
· 3h ago
Land-based computing power is the main battlefield. SoftBank's recent focus on the U.S. cloud market seems to be gearing up for a direct confrontation with Amazon and Google.
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IOnlyTrustOn-ChainData.
· 3h ago
Elon Musk: Are you polite?
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