Japan’s SoftBank enters battery business to power AI data centers

Telecom ties up with two South Korean startups, targets annual sales of over $640m SoftBank plans to develop and manufacture battery cells and battery energy storage systems that will first be used for its own AI data centers. TOKYO — SoftBank Corp. has launched a battery business in Japan to help meet growing electricity demand from artificial intelligence data centers, with plans to eventually expand overseas.

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