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Fortune
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Softbank CEO dismisses Elon Musk’s extraterrestrial data center idea in favor of maximizing Earth-side construction now: ‘He who strikes first wins’

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The billionaire founder of Softbank, who made a fortune backing companies with world-changing ideas like Alibaba, said Elon Musk’s orbital data center plans are as out there as the eccentric SpaceX founder himself.

“In the battle for AI, the next few years will be far more important than what might happen a decade or so from now,” Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday in response to a question at the annual shareholder meeting for Softbank’s wireless and broadband division Tuesday, Bloomberg reported.

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