The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo on November 21, 2025. <\/p>\n
Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images<\/p>\n
Japan’s SoftBank<\/a> on Monday said it has agreed to buy data center investment firm DigitalBridge<\/a> for $4 billion as part of its artificial intelligence push.<\/p>\n The deal, which has been unanimously approved by a special committee of DigitalBridge’s board of directors, will see SoftBank acquire all the outstanding common stock of DigitalBridge for $16 per share in cash. <\/p>\n This represents a 15% premium to DigitalBridge’s closing share price on Dec. 26, according to SoftBank. <\/p>\n SoftBank CEO and Chairman Masayoshi Son said the acquisition “will strengthen the foundation for next-generation AI data centers” and advance the firm’s vision to become a leading “Artificial Super Intelligence” platform provider.<\/p>\n “As AI transforms industries worldwide, we need more compute, connectivity, power, and scalable infrastructure,” Son said in a statement.<\/p>\n Shares of DigitalBridge last jumped about 10%. The firm’s share price had climbed as much as 50% after Bloomberg reported a deal could be imminent.<\/p>\n The agreement between SoftBank and DigitalBridge comes amid a global boom for the infrastructure that underpins AI applications.<\/p>\n “The buildout of AI infrastructure represents one of the most significant investment opportunities of our generation,” DigitalBridge Marc Ganzi CEO said in a statement.<\/p>\n SoftBank’s “vision, capital strength, and global network will allow us to accelerate our mission with greater flexibility, invest with a longer-term horizon on behalf of our investors, and better serve the world’s leading technology companies as they scale their AI ambitions,” he added.<\/p>\n SoftBank recently sold<\/a> its entire stake in U.S. chipmaker Nvidia<\/a> for $5.83 billion to make room for its investment in OpenAI.<\/p>\n DigitalBridge describes itself as “a unique digital infrastructure business,” and has roughly $108 billion of assets under management as of the end of September, according to its website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo on November 21, 2025. Kazuhiro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,172,1053,4065,174,171,203933,5063,105],"class_list":["post-378550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-europe","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-markets","tag-moore-threads-technology","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}