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And then he has asked me Masa can you do something in France? Choose France. Okay? For your expansion of business and technology especially AI data center can use our power in France. I said okay, if you have power we can make a AI data center. And he asked me Masa, are you quick? I said I am quick.
Because he asked me because there's a event in June 1st, choose France event. It's only 2 months. So can you make it happen? Can we announce something in June 1st? I said okay. I will try. And I will he he asked me how much can you do? I said I can try for 2 gigawatts. And but I need your support. So he said yeah.
Okay. Let's do it together. Your team, our team work together to find the locations, to find all the conditions and then we make it happen. And then we exchange the text and say maybe I can go for challenge for 5 gigawatts. In 2 months, we actually identify, committed, and make a specific site uh already secured for 3 gigawatts.
And then we are now evaluating additional 3 gigawatts. So, we are going to commit to deliver 5 gigawatts, which is largest scale uh in Europe, which is uh 75 billion euro in the size of investment for the AI data center. But, if you include the chip and system, it's going to be uh uh close to uh 750 billion dollars in the size of uh US dollars.
I have to convert into uh euro, but it's uh it's a massive uh size of investment coming. SoftBank do not put all of the money. We are aggregating. We do the project financing because we have hyperscaler as our customer. So, even though the size of the investment is big, it's a growing industry with lots of uh demand so that this scale can be achieved.
We are doing that in the US already. We are expanding a lot in US. So, we have the model, we have the momentum, which we can make uh France the center of Europe, and Europe need uh this kind of AI technology. I get amazed every time I come to Europe, the last thousands of years of civilization uh centered in Europe.
I think people discuss whether AI is good, robotics by AI is good or bad for humanity. I said, "Every time civilization comes, the society lifestyle change, the job change. But if you avoid the speed and the wave of civilization, your country will be left out." There's no choice. US is going fast, China is going fast.
Europe, Japan, Asia have to also go fast not to be left out. This is a national security. France has been uh exporting electricity power. Now, not just exporting, continue to export electricity power, we can make convert electricity as a raw material into more high-valued intelligence. So, France can export intelligence.
Not just the power export, export intelligence which is made by power. Initiated by power. More value-added export. AI-utilizing robots, AI robots, France can be We discussed in the morning uh President Macron has a passion with the AI robot. I said, [snorts] "Okay. Maybe we can make France the center of AI robots exporting, manufacturing, creating a factory here in France.
This is all for the civilization of next thousand years. France, Europe have to have a momentum a powerful engine for the growth of next civilization. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. I I I really appreciate it and let me say a few words in English before shifting to French. Uh we are we are extremely happy as you perfectly uh made it right now.
We we met beginning of April 1st uh in Japan during my state visit and we had this this first discussion and uh we we clearly wanted to to make progress with you and deliver concrete results. And you were extremely as always direct, ambitious, aggressive in the in the right sense of the world. And uh and uh like a challenge, I just asked myself, "Okay, how fast are you?
Are you sure that you can deliver for 1st of June?" We will do whatever we can. And and we did it. And I want to thank you personally, uh your team and our teams because you you worked very closely together and uh and it's a wonderful achievement. So, indeed we already secured between Dunkirk, Fos-sur-Mer, and Douchy-les-Mines different sites and uh and we have a um uh clearly the equivalent already secured of 3 GW, which makes roughly speaking 45 billions already secured in terms of investment.
And you want to go to five and we identified obviously uh the additional sites, which will make the 75 billion you men- you mentioned and you expressed. And on top So, for us, it's a great achievement because you are a very respected uh partner, very well-known, and we transform available energy in data centers, in computing capacities for everybody in the world, but we are clearly bridging the gap we had in computing capacities in the in Europe.
And today, this morning at the Elysée, sign this partnership with the Schneider, which will allow us collectively to even add more value to this project by this common factory in Dunkirk, where on on AI robotics and AI capacities, you will create together more than value. So, it's it's for us a great achievement.
And on top of that, we discussed this morning uh with Massa together and our teams how to precisely make additional data centers in France, and we identified all the potential sites, and um as well how to create more more value together. Meaning, how to be more present on AI robotics, where Massa is a great player, and uh and we have our our road map, and we want to double down.
So, it's a great achievement. So, I want to thank thank you personally for your commitment and for this great announcement this morning. Now, allow me to shift to French, and you have a translator. And we bring a project Mahango. Um And I want to make me The So, want to thank the OECD and the world the investment international and to make France since 7 now uninterrupted the most attractive in Europe during these last 7 years, France is the country in Europe that has attracted the most foreign investment.
It is the result of a collective effort, the reforms that we have been able to carry out on the tax front, on the labor law front the pro-innovation policy that we have implemented, the mobilization of all the teams as well, and I want to thank my team the ministers Business France the DGE at Bercy, but also all the local authorities, because it is also a mobilization of all our territories.
On the latest editions of Choose France we have mobilized 87 billion euros in foreign investment. Confirmed, delivered with the creation of more than 50,000 jobs and this in all our territories with many towns of less than 30,000 inhabitants in which these investments have been deployed. I was there a few days ago precisely near Châteaudun for one of Vorwerk's which is a perfect illustration of the intensity of these investments.
Today in Versailles, we will join these places in a few moments it is 60 new investments that are being announced. And this edition of Choose France alone will allow us to crystallize a record amount of 93 billion euros in confirmed investment for more than 15,000 jobs. This is obviously by far a record edition and it is historic.
It is 93 billion euros in investment in data centers and in AI, of course and the announcement made by Mazars and SoftBank represents almost half SoftBank artificial data center independent semiconductor electrification tractor or the camion in the sea in the sun million euro investment stranger than other people is on the proof concrete the attractive of the France for the 7th consecutive premier destination of investment stranger in Europe and it comes out of these days of effort that we accompany also with an acceleration of our agenda European a simplification of this one including in the domain of innovation and an acceleration of the grand project of France with what we call the method Notre Dame and the investment of the future for 2030 the announcement made by SoftBank today is therefore massive and it is also historic it is 45 million euro of investment in France confirmed that we have built in 2 months thanks to the energy available and all the work that has been done with the French nuclear industry that allows to export for 2 years more than 90 terawatt and thanks also to all the mobilization and preparation of the sites with the local authorities with RTE so that these sites are immediately connected as soon as possible and therefore the sites of Bosquel of Dunkerque of Bouchain are therefore planned to host the investments of SoftBank they are confirmed and therefore for these for these sites and as I said earlier in the introduction in French these 3 sit come avec Schneider sur permet c'est milliard d'investissement et permet déployer les dans les prochain mois puisque avons objectif de tout cela entre 2029 2030 pour c'est et donc qui production qui d'ici l'année 2030 puisse être effective c'est donc une montée en valeur pour le pays au-delà de milliard d'euros d'autres ont été identifié pour permettre les 75 milliard d'euros d'investissement de SoftBank qui sont en France sur des center et nous identifié de nouveau projet pour produire des robots dans notre et continuer l'innovation mais là-dessus fidèle la méthode que nous avons eu durant ces derniers mois je dirai davantage nous avons les choses beaucoup d'ambition volonté d'aller vite mais on annonce quand c'est sûr c'est qu'on a fait aujourd'hui en tout cas c'est une journée très importante pour la France pour ce partenariat avec SoftBank puisque à la fois center et le partenariat Schneider vont nous permettre vraiment d'avancer beaucoup plus fort de faire de la France votre premier pays d'investissement de faire de la France de très loin le premier pays accueillant des centres de données data en Europe et de faire de la France aussi le point avancé de la production de robots IA d'industrialisation par l'IA avec ce partenariat avec Schneider je vous remercie pour votre attention messieurs and let me finish by saying uh this personal word to Masayoshi thank you very much for word to Maz thank you very much for your commitment, your ambition and uh the fact that you delivered in such a few weeks' time.
Means a lot to us in terms of trust and capacity of execution, so you can count on us in order to follow up and do very big things together. Thank you, Maz. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Merci beaucoup. Thank you.
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