SoftBank is building a robotics company that builds data centers — and it’s already eyeing a $100B IPO

Technology companies are scrambling to create infrastructure that can accelerate the growth of automation. Now, Japan’s multinational SoftBank is said to be planning to create a new company designed exclusively for the machine.

SoftBank is launching a new venture called Roze AI, Financial Times report first. Roze would like to make data infrastructure in the US “better,” Wall Street Journal reports. It can do this – among other things – by sending autonomous robots to help build server farms.

In an interesting twist, the conglomerate is already preparing Roze for an IPO, and some managers want it to happen by the second half of 2026, the Journal writes. The proposed price could be $100 billion, the FT said.

TechCrunch reached out to SoftBank for more information.

Some recent businesses have also seen the use of AI and automation to streamline the industrial sector. For example, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos is he caused the cause called Project Prometheus which plans to buy companies in major industries and modernize them using AI.

SoftBank is known for backing dark horse startups (mostly sinking hundreds of millions of dollars in Zumean AI-driven pizza startup that debuted in 2023). The FT reports that some inside SoftBank have expressed skepticism “about the valuation and timing of the proposed IPO.”