SoftBank plans to buy a former Sharp LCD panel plant in Osaka for ~$676M, sources say to turn it into a data center for jointly developing AI agents with OpenAI (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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Kate Park / TechCrunch:
SoftBank plans to buy a former Sharp LCD panel plant in Osaka for ~$676M, sources say to turn it into a data center for jointly developing AI agents with OpenAI  —  SoftBank is marching ahead on its ambitions to build out a major AI operation in its home market of Japan …