He said sugar. Then he asked me, "Masa, can you do something in France? Choose France." Okay? For your expansion of business and technology, especially AI data center, you can use our power in France? I said, "Okay, if you have power, we can make an AI data center." And he asked me, "Masa, are you quick?" I said, "I am quick." Because he asked me because there's an event on June 1st, the Choose France event. It's only two months. So, can you make it happen? Can we announce something on June 1st? I said, "Okay, I will try." And he asked me, "How much can you do?" I said, "I can try for 2 gigawatts." But I need your support. So he said, "Yeah, okay. Let's do it together. Your team, our team, work together to find the location, to find all the conditions, and then we make it happen." And then we exchanged text and said maybe I can go for a challenge for 5 gigawatts. In two months we actually identified, committed, and made a specific site already secured for 3 gigawatts. And then we are now evaluating an additional 3 gigawatts. So we are going to commit to deliver 5 gigawatts, which is the largest scale in Europe, which is 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 close to 750 billion dollars in the size of U.S. dollars, I have to convert to euro. But it's a massive size of investment coming. SoftBank does not put all of the money. We are aggregating. We do project financing because we have hyperscalers as our customers. So even though the size of the investment is big, it's a growing industry with lots of demand, so this scale can be achieved. We are doing that in the U.S. already. We are expanding a lot in the U.S. So we have the model, we have the momentum, which we can make France the center of Europe. And Europe needs this kind of AI technology. I get amazed every time I come to Europe. The last thousands of years of civilization centered in Europe. I think so. People discuss whether AI is good, robotics by AI is good or bad for humanity. I say every time civilization comes, society lifestyle changes, jobs change. But if you avoid the speed and the wave of civilization, your country would be left out. There's no choice. The U.S. 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 exporting electricity power. Now, not just exporting, continue to export electricity power. We can convert electricity as a raw material into more high-valued intelligence. So France can export intelligence, not just 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. President Macron has a passion with the AI robot. I said, "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 the next thousand years. France, Europe have to have momentum, a powerful engine for the growth of the next civilization. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. — I really appreciate it. And let me say a few words in English before shifting to French. We are extremely happy, as you perfectly made it right now. We met beginning of April 1st in Japan during my state visit. And we had this first discussion. And we clearly wanted to make progress with you and deliver concrete results. And you were, as always, direct, ambitious, aggressive in the right sense of the word. And like a challenge, I just asked myself, "Okay, how fast are you? Are you sure that you can deliver for June 1st?" We will do whatever we can. And we did it. And I want to thank you personally, your team and our teams, because you worked very closely together and it's a wonderful achievement. So indeed, we already secured between Dunkirk, Bosquet, and Dushant three different sites. And we clearly have the equivalent already secured of 3 gigawatts, which makes roughly speaking 45 billion already secured in terms of investment. And you want to go to five, and we identified obviously the additional sites, which will make the 75 billion you mentioned and expressed. And on top, for us it's a great achievement because you are a very respected partner, very well known, and we transform available energy into data centers, into computing capacities for everybody in the world, but we are clearly bridging the gap we had in computing capacities in Europe. And today, this morning at the Elysée, we signed this partnership with Schneider, which will allow us collectively to even add more value to this project by this common factory in Dunkirk, where on AI robotics and AI capacities, you will create together more added value. So it's for us a great achievement. And on top of that, we discussed this morning with Masa together and our teams how to precisely make additional data centers in France, and we identified all the potential sites, and as well how to create more value together, meaning how to be more present on AI robotics, where Masa is a great player, and we have our roadmap. And we want to double down. So it's a great achievement. So I want to 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.
