🇯🇵SoftBank recorded $3.7 billion in data-center project write-downs, including $2.85 billion in nonrefundable equipment prepayments.

Financial_Express reported $3.7 billion in SoftBank data-center project write-downs, including $2.85 billion of nonrefundable prepayments to equipment companies. Those prepayments covered an 8 GW project in Ohio and other U.S. data-center projects, rather than exclusively the Ohio development.

The reporting attributes the unrecoverable prepayments to project changes and describes purchases intended to secure power equipment, equipment availability, and capacity. The 8 GW figure describes the Ohio project’s stated scale; the messages do not establish that this capacity was built, energized, or operating.

SoftBank reportedly recorded a second-fiscal-quarter net loss of ¥1.12 trillion, approximately $7.1 billion, against an average analyst expectation of ¥129 billion in profit. The Vision Fund separately recorded a quarterly loss of ¥81.6 billion; the supplied coverage identifies both data-center impairments and weaker investment valuations, without attributing the entire group loss to infrastructure.