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SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant)

SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant)

Planned
Probable

Jurisdiction: Japan

Sharp Sakai LCD plant site (~440,000 sqm, ~60% of the plant's land), Sakai City, Osaka — SoftBank's flagship AI DC: 150+MW initial power capacity, 400+MW future; ~¥100B site acquisition (Dec 2024); operations target slipped from 2025 to end-2026 per later reporting.

Capacity
—
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
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Delivery health score

51 /100
51/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

50 /100
50/100

Capital

50 /100
50/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant) No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant) Newest capital evidence is 2024-06-07 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant) Newest regulatory evidence is 2024-06-07 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant) No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant) Newest infrastructure evidence is 2024-06-07 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant) No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant) No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2024-06-07).
Schedule staleness decay -25 SoftBank Sakai AI Data Center (ex-Sharp LCD plant) Newest schedule evidence is 2024-06-07 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
SoftBank
Developer
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Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. E2
    SoftBank Corp. - SoftBank and Sharp sign MOU for large-scale AI data center at Sharp Sakai Plant

    SoftBank Corp. · Jun 7, 2024 · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/news/press/sbkk/2024/20240607_01/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. E2
    SoftBank Corp. - SoftBank and Sharp sign MOU for large-scale AI data center at Sharp Sakai Plant

    · SoftBank Corp. · relevance 0.90