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SoftBank’s billion-dollar loss may have put a cap on AI’s natural gas ambitions

SoftBank lost over $3 billion pre-ordering natural gas turbines to power AI data centers. Here's what the loss means to power markets.

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SoftBank’s billion-dollar loss may have put a cap on AI’s natural gas ambitions
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SoftBank might not be the first to invest in a hot trend, but when it does, it goes big.

Witness its $30 billion bet on OpenAI in early 2025 or its announcement in February that its SB Energy subsidiary would spend $33 billion on a 9.2-gigawatt natural gas power plant. If you can’t be first, be biggest, I…

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