DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data center investment group will become SoftBank's "third-party infrastructure arm" after SoftBank's ~$4B takeover closed (Financial Times)

SoftBank's takeover of DigitalBridge appears set to expand SoftBank’s reach into third-party data center infrastructure, creating a larger platform to capture demand from AI and cloud growth. For CIOs and technology leaders, this points to further consolidation in a critical supply market, with implications for capacity access, pricing power, vendor concentration, and the long-term sourcing strategy for mission-critical workloads.