Technology companies are racing to build infrastructure that can further fuel the automation boom. Now Japanese multinational Softbank is reportedly planning to form a new company designed to automate the construction of that infrastructure.
The Financial Times reported that Softbank is pursuing a new business called Roze AI. Roze will seek to make U.S. data center construction more “efficient,” the Wall Street Journal reported. They can do this, among other things, by deploying autonomous robots to help build server farms.
Interestingly, the conglomerate is already preparing for Roze’s IPO, and some executives want it to happen by the second half of 2026, the Journal wrote. The FT reported that the desired valuation would be $100 billion.
TechCrunch has reached out to SoftBank to find out more.
Other recent ventures have also envisioned using AI and automation to make industrial sectors more efficient. For example, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos co-founded a startup called Project Prometheus, which plans to acquire companies in key industrial sectors and modernize them using AI.
SoftBank is known to back some dark horse startups (notably, it invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Zume, an AI-based pizza delivery startup that went bankrupt in 2023). The FT noted that some within SoftBank have expressed skepticism “about the valuation and offering timeline for the IPO.”
