Tech giants ramp up AI infrastructure: data center asset competition heats up

OnChainDetective · 2025-12-29T12:50:12+00:00

Japanese tech giant SoftBank is actively negotiating to acquire private equity firm DigitalBridge to develop data centers and network infrastructure needed for the AI era. The transaction agreement is expected to be announced as early as this Monday, but the specific terms are still under discussion and have not been finalized. This move reflects increasing competition in the technology industry infrastructure sector.

OnChainDetective

2025-12-29 12:50:12

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【ChainNews】There are reports that Japanese tech giant SoftBank is actively pushing forward a major acquisition—negotiating to acquire the globally renowned private equity investment firm DigitalBridge. The company mainly focuses on assets such as data centers and network infrastructure, serving as an indispensable supporter in the AI era.

Sources reveal that SoftBank may announce the framework of this deal as early as this Monday. From a strategic perspective, this is a key deployment by SoftBank to seize the AI wave—massive AI computing requires strong data center support, and data center infrastructure is becoming a new battleground in technological competition.

However, the matter has not yet been fully finalized. It is reported that the specific terms are still under negotiation, and the final agreement has not been reached, with details such as the closing time possibly subject to change. Representatives from both SoftBank and DigitalBridge have not made any official responses, but the trend itself is already attracting industry attention—big tech companies are intensifying their layout in the infrastructure sector.

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CascadingDipBuyer

· 6h ago

Coming back to buy the dip? SoftBank's move looks quite aggressive. Data centers are indeed the gold mine of the future, but the deal terms haven't been finalized yet, and this water is still very deep.

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MrRightClick

· 6h ago

The data center battle is the real AI competition.

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OPsychology

· 6h ago

SoftBank is once again pouring money into infrastructure, truly treating data centers as gold mines In the AI era, whoever controls computing power wins, this logic makes sense DigitalBridge has caught attention, and the price is likely to soar again The data center race has just begun, and there are bigger shows to come Once this deal is finalized, other tech giants won't be able to sit still

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MoonRocketTeam

· 6h ago

SoftBank is this wave of filling up, data centers are the fueling stations for the AI era, whoever controls the infrastructure has the right to launch [rocket]

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