Die Hintergründe zu Softbank & Trump sind auch ganz interessant:
Trump said the investments in building artificial intelligence infrastructure would create 100,000 jobs, twice the 50,000 promised when Son pledged $50 billion in U.S. investments after Trump’s victory in 2016.
Sie haben 50 Milliarden investiert. Aber alles in private Firmen. Fraglich, ob der Deal mit Trump irgendeinen Effekt hatte, außer PR. Darunter waren aber auch die fast 20 Milliarden für WeWork, die Softbank verloren hat.
SoftBank also invested in the failed robot pizza-making company Zume. Son is canny: SoftBank-related spending on lobbying and donations to U.S. politicians and parties runs into the billions of dollars. And both times Trump was elected, Son was quick to show his support.
Gab es damals 50k neue Jobs? Weiß keiner.
Whether all that money has translated into the promised 50,000 jobs is difficult to determine. SoftBank would not provide an estimate of how many jobs it has created in the U.S. since Son’s pledge. Because the majority of the Vision Fund’s investments have gone to private companies, public data is not available, making it hard to hold Son accountable for his promise.
Softbank investiert da also sicher nicht um AI voranzutreiben oder OpenAI zu helfen. Sondern einzig und allein um Geld zu machen. Das passt zu dem Projekt Stargate halt 0.
Trump and Son said the $100 billion that SoftBank has promised to invest will go to building AI infrastructure, but the nature of that spending remains unclear. The eventual impact of AI on jobs remains an open question, but much of its infrastructure is based on energy-guzzling data processing centers that are likely to employ relatively few people once they are built.
