Softbank CEO Wants to Build ‘Trump Industrial Parks’ on Federal Land to Boost AI: Report

Billionaire Masayoshi Son has a plan to use hundreds of billions of dollars from Japan to build Trump-branded industrial parks on federal land across the U.S., according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The plan is to manufacture high-tech hardware, and while the details are reportedly still being hammered out, it all sounds pretty wild. The Journal’s description of the early plans: “…ambitious to the point of science fiction.”

Internally at Softbank, where Son is…