SoftBank Group and its telecom unit will start renting artificial intelligence computing resources to U.S. companies next fiscal year via a new entity named SB Neo Inc.
The companies said in a statement SB Neo will offer AI chips and cloud services to large customers, including hyperscalers, to tap surging demand for model training and inference.
Junichi Miyakawa, head of the telecom unit, said the neocloud venture intends to ramp computing resources to supply roughly 10 gigawatts of data-center capacity by roughly 2030.
SoftBank plans to build that scale using a growing pipeline of data centers the businesses are developing.
The move places SoftBank in direct competition with specialized providers such as CoreWeave and Nebius Group as demand for dedicated AI infrastructure rises.
