软银在发布9月季度财报时表示，已对为确保数据中心设备而支付的不可退还预付款计提37亿美元减值，反映出其对数据中心计划的重新审视。减值包括因“合同修改和和解”计提的9亿美元。
SoftBank wrote off $3.7 billion spent on non-refundable advance payments to secure data center equipment, reflecting a review of its data center plans, the company said in reporting its September quarter results. The writedown includes $0.9 billion written off related “to contract modifications and settlements.”
软银在预付款上总共花费了95亿美元，用于电力、设备采购和制造产能，包括正在俄亥俄州开发的巨型Ports-Pike数据中心，该中心旨在为OpenAI提供算力，并获得英伟达的融资协助。
SoftBank had spent a total of $9.5 billion on advance payments, for power, equipment purchaes and manufacturing capacity, including at the giant Ports-Pike data center under development in Ohio, which is designed to supply computing capacity to OpenAI, with financing help from Nvidia.
软银高管未透露变更细节，仅在新闻发布会上表示，一两年前AI数据中心项目还很新，人们对什么是必要的看法已随时间发生变化。与此同时，软银首席财务官后藤芳光否认了SpaceX首席执行官埃隆·马斯克上周在X平台发帖提出的质疑，即软银拖欠燃气轮机付款。
SoftBank executives gave no details about the changes, other than saying at a press briefing that a year or two ago, AI data center projects were new and that attitudes towards what was necessary had changed over time. Meanwhile SoftBank CFO Yoshimitsu Goto denied a suggestion from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, made in an X post last week, that SoftBank was defaulting on gas turbine payments.
软银本季度通过抵押其在Arm、英特尔和OpenAI的股份以及发行债券，总共筹集了565亿美元，用于偿还早期融资。
SoftBank raised a total of $56.5 billion in the quarter, by borrowing against its stakes in Arm, Intel and OpenAI and issuing bonds, to repay an earlier financing.